Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.
Saul Williams, The Fader Label, 2005. Music review Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...
Anti-GM event at RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture, CCA, Glasgow, 2005. Art review – Tom Jennings. Report on an event mixing art and politics.
Documentary representations of British and European Muslim women. Essay review Follow-up to ‘Same Difference’ examines images of Muslims in photography and television
A History of Violence, dir. David Cronenberg, 2005. Film review Tom Jennings applauds the success of A History of Violence in linking the attractions of action cinema to ideologies of control and conquest by force.
A Dirty Shame, dir. John Waters, 2005. Film review Of several summer film releases tackling themes of sexual expression and repression, this review judges A Dirty Shame the daftest, as well as the most radical.
9 Songs, dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2005. Film review Review of 9 Songs, the ‘dirtiest film ever shown in Britain’.
Volver, dir. Pedro Almodovar, Spain 2006 (English subtitles). Film review Review of Almodovar’s latest cinematic delirium
V for Vendetta, dir. James McTeigue, 2006. Film review – Tom Jennings. Tom Jennings reviews the latest botched adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novels.
Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Eithne Quinn, Columbia University Press, 2005. Book review Tom Jennings reviews an invicisve history of an important contemporary music genre.
Ms Dynamite, Judgement Days, Polydor, 2005. Music review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings judges Ms Dynamite’s second album a mismatch of unremarkable smooth music and…
Guerilla: the Taking of Patty Hearst, dir. Robert Stone, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ review of Robert Stone’s account of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
