Tom Jennings

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.

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

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.

Review of Ang Lee’s Chinese wartime espionage drama, the follow-up to Brokeback Mountain.

Juggling simplistic stereotypes, Channel 4’s Britz illuminates neither the attitudes of UK Muslims nor the motivations of homegrown jihadists, concludes Tom Jennings.

Tom Jennings’ review of Michael Moore’s new documentary tragi-comedy on the American health (dis)service

Reviews this documentary lambasting Labour's assault on freedom.

Review of a group show of new political art.

James Lee Burke’s post-Katrina hardboiled crime novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, exposes and critiques the responses to the disaster.

Review of the documentary about the corporate lampooners

Tom Jennings’ essay on David Lynch, recent cinema and film criticism.

Tom Jennings’ 1992 essay on current affairs media and their coverage of urban riots