The 3rd World, by Immortal Technique and DJ Green Lantern (Viper Records 2008) The new release from Immortal Technique, hip-hop’s most implacable class warrior, thoroughly links…
Couscous, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche (France 2007) Tom Jennings is captivated by Couscous and its sympathetic but unflinchingly honest portrait of an…
The Ghost, by Robert Harris (2008) Tom Jennings chuckles at a recent New Labour rat leaving the sinking ship.
Happy-Go-Lucky, directed by Mike Leigh (2008) Belying his miserabilist reputation, Mike Leigh’s new film Happy-Go-Lucky celebrates incorrigible optimism – but with the usual twists, finds Tom Jennings
Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (Channel 4) and the White season, BBC 2 (2008) A rash of TV documentaries explain away tense British resident-immigrant relations with typical middle-class prejudice in reproducing forty years of media and state-managed mystifications of the ravages of capitalism, according to Tom Jennings.
Gone, Baby, Gone, directed by Ben Affleck (2007) Tom Jennings is relieved that Ben Affleck’s first film as director, the thought-provoking Gone, Baby, Gone, avoids the ham sentimentality of much of his acting
Craven New World. Film review - Tom Jennings A comparison of UK near-future nightmares, including Taking Liberties, Faceless, Children Of Men, The Last Enemy, Exodus and Polly II: A Plan For Revolution in Docklands.
Lust, Caution, directed by Ang Lee, 2007. Film review – Tom Jennings Review of Ang Lee’s Chinese wartime espionage drama, the follow-up to Brokeback Mountain.
Britz, dir. Peter Kosminsky, Channel 4, 2007. Television review – Tom Jennings Juggling simplistic stereotypes, Channel 4’s Britz illuminates neither the attitudes of UK Muslims nor the motivations of homegrown jihadists, concludes Tom Jennings.
Sicko, dir. Michael Moore, 2007 Film review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ review of Michael Moore’s new documentary tragi-comedy on the American health (dis)service
Taking Liberties, written and directed by Chris Atkins, 2007. Film review - Tom Jennings Reviews this documentary lambasting Labour's assault on freedom.
Resist: Protest Art, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, 2003. Art review Review of a group show of new political art.