Josef Herman: Warsaw, Brussels, Glasgow, London, 1938-1944
Josef Herman's early, cathartic work should not be missed
Josef Herman: Warsaw, Brussels, Glasgow, London, 1938-1944
Josef Herman's early, cathartic work should not be missed
Red Army Faction Blues
Red Army Faction Blues persuasively blends fact and fiction in its account of Germany's turbulent times from the '60s to the '80s, writes Paul Simon
Beth Porter
Getting their wires crossed
Tuesday 11 January 2011
The late present from the Con-Dems could be just another scam
The miners know what matters
Tuesday 26 October 2010
"Truth and democracy," said one of the rescued Chilean miners when asked how they sorted out the challenges of day-to-day survival.
Because it's there...
Thursday 30 September 2010
"Absolutely disgusting!"
Wednesday 08 September 2010
So the June 1896 issue of The Chap Book launched the phenomenon of film criticism. Reviewing the 20-second depiction of the first-ever screen kiss, Herbert Stone's pioneering rant created a moral stir more than a critique of Vitascope's footage. Reviews ever since have suffered a media identity crisis.
No free-thinkers here
Wednesday 04 August 2010
Young Andy's preparing for college, trying, like the Apostle Paul, to put away childish things. There's no better time to ask: Edjucayshun - wot's it four?
Women and the cannibal
Tuesday 29 June 2010
After months of box-office testosterone, feminists can't ignore the gender issue flashing its knickers at four noteworthy recent releases. But, hot on the heels of the "crossbow cannibal" serving us slaughtered sex workers, sharing the front page with Cumbrian corpses, are we asking the wrong questions of our cinema?
Challenging the status quo
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Has the left developed laryngitis? It's certainly lost its voice in the mainstream media.
Sniffing out political content
Sunday 25 April 2010
With the release of films misleadingly entitled Ghost and Cemetery Junction, we're made aware not of the supernatural but of the startling truth.
Nice face on view is a con
Monday 29 March 2010
In cinema as in politics, it's business as usual. Mike Judge sets Extract, his comedy of social values, against the backdrop of a factory in trouble.
Happily never after...
Wednesday 10 March 2010
Help! We're falling down a hole of deception dug by electioneering politicians into some parallel universe. And it all started once upon a time.