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General Problems of Culture
:> Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture – Nelson/Grossberg, Eds.
:> Recapturing Marxism – Levine/Lembcke, Eds.

Literature and Art

:> The Dada Painters and Poets – Motherwell, Ed.
:> The Dada Almanac – Huelsenbeck, Ed.
:> The Situationist International Anthology – Knabb, Ed.

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

In The Best Interests of the Child

Craven New World. Film review - Tom Jennings

Polly II: A Plan For Revolution in Docklands

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.

Craven New World, by Tom Jennings

Projectile debating

This post is coming a little later than would be usual, as I just took my first proper (non-anarchist-related) break in what seems like ages after Projectile finished and only just got back from it.

For those of you who aren’t up on what the Newcastle-based Projectile anarchist film festival does, it really provides the main northern answer to the London Anarchist Bookfair as the place for libertarians to get together (though Manchester, Bradford and Glasgow all have their own regular bookfairs, none are on quite the same scale).

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.

Sex, War by 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

Body Politics by Tom Jennings

Taking Liberties, written and directed by Chris Atkins, 2007. Film review - Tom Jennings

Reviews this documentary lambasting Labour's assault on freedom.

Doing the Rights Thing

The Yes Men, dirs. Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith, 2004. Film review

Review of the documentary about the corporate lampooners

The Maybe Men

Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings

Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.

Dilemmas of a Bleeding Heart

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.

What A Man’s Gotta Do

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