Review of Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs - Red and Black Notes Review of Living For Chang by Grace Lee Boggs.
A review of Joe Jacob's "Out of the Ghetto" - Red and Black Notes Review of Out of the Ghetto Joe Jacobs, London: Phoenix Press, 1991 (originally published in 1977). …
In the Loop, directed by Armando Iannucci Venturing out of Westminster reveals the limits of The Thick Of It’s satire, concludes Tom Jennings
John Zerzan and the primitive confusion - En Attendant French communist group En Attendant's critique of two key text by anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan.
John Zerzan and the primitive confusion, by En Attendant - Paul Petard Paul Petard reviews a pamphlet criticising the primitivism of John Zerzan.
Five Minutes of Heaven, by Guy Hibbert, BBC 2 Tom Jennings is disappointed, but not surprised, at this drama reducing the legacy of the North of Ireland Troubles to personal therapeutics.
The Wire, by David Simon and Ed Burns, BBC 2 Tom Jennings endorses the accolades accorded to ground-breaking American TV drama The Wire – but with reservations.
Her whole life ahead, by Paolo Virzi (2008) Story of a 25 year-old woman working in a call-centre, the movie is a grotesque and tragic-comic depiction of Italian precarious workers …
The Class, directed by Laurent Cantet - Tom Jennings Tom Jennings attributes this film’s success to its subversion of educational orthodoxy veiled in high-liberal and Hollywood homilies.
Creating a Movement: The Struggle for Inclusive Education in the UK, 1990–2006, by Stefan Sczcelkun Tom Jennings appreciates this snapshot of a campaign against the segregation of…
The Dream of Fluxus, by George Macuinas The Baltic’s recent Fluxus show can’t entirely conceal the radical ambition and potential of avant-garde art, finds Tom Jennings.
Amber Films and UK social-realist cinema Tom Jennings questions the documentary claims of film fictions of lower-class life.