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Film review: Rogue One
It’s clear from the off that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, a spin-off from the main saga, is a little bit different. Welsh …
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Film review: Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake”
The vicious harassment of the sick and unemployed by the Tory government in Britain provoked legendary director Ken Loach, now 80 years of age, …
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Film review: Where to Invade Next
It is six years since Michael Moore’s last film and he’s back on top form. Perhaps a little less strident (a good thing), and …
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Film review: ‘Trumbo’
From the red carpet to the blacklist and back again Imagine losing your job for the views you hold. Imagine being imprisoned for membership …
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Film review: The Big Short
By Mel Gregson The Big Short is a Hollywood comedy about some of the people involved in the US housing market collapse that triggered …
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What the Hunger Games has taught us
The release of Mockingjay Part 2 – the final instalment of the Hunger Games series – is the most anticipated film this summer. It …
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Film review: Straight Outta Compton
Reviewed by Eljeer Hawkins, CWI in the US The theatrical release and commercial success of Straight Outta Compton, a biographical film that chronicles the …
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Film review: The Punk Singer
The Punk Singer is a film about Kathleen Hannah, a musician and feminist best known for her bands Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The …
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Film review: The Rover
Australian director David Michôd’s second film, The Rover, is a bold take on the brutal realities of capitalism. By Chris Dite, Socialist Party Set …
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Film review: The Lego Movie
The Rupert Murdoch-owned, Fox News said the Lego Movie’s ‘anti-capitalist’ message is ‘pushing an anti-business message to our kids’. By Socialist Party reporters The …
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Film review: The Wolf of Wall Street
“Fuck the clients. … Move the money from your client’s pocket into your pocket. … Nobody knows if a stock is gonna go up, …
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Film review: 12 Years a Slave
Reviewed by Eljeer Hawkins, New York “There may be humane masters, as there certainly are inhuman ones – there may be slaves well-clothed, well-fed, …
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Interview with John Pilger: This is no utopia
John Pilger, the renowned investigative journalist and award winning film maker, has recently completed a new film, Utopia, which deals with the subjugation of …
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TV Review: Brand new revolution?
Russell Brand has not covered himself in glory throughout his career so far: from the extreme womanising and sexist attitudes, the presenting of rubbish …
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Film review: Elysium
Film by Neill Blomkamp Reviewed by Kat Galea The problem with most dystopian films is that the audience generally leaves the film thinking how …
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Film review: ‘NO’ – an exercise in rewriting history
Unfortunately Pablo Larrain’s film ’No’ tells nothing about the background to Chile’s 1988 plebiscite and the struggle against the regime Tony Saunois, CWI (Committee …
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Film Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, sets out to depict – but according to Bigelow not necessarily endorse …
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Review: The Dark Knight Rises
“There’s a storm coming”, Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) warns billionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) in “The Dark Knight Rises”. “You and your friends better …
