The film ‘Selma’ and Brian Jackson live: a review
Martin Luther King and his supporters fought a titanic battle for suffrage in Selma, Alabama. Brian Jackson was Gil Scott-Heron’s writing partner and pianist. Together they produced some of the most insightful music of the 1970s. Here, Nick Grant reviews the new film Selma and Brian Jackson’s gig in London.
The Interview, the Sony hack, North Korea and the future of political film
The hack on Sony and the cancellation of comedy film The Interview have wider implications – for political film and censorship as well as international relations.
Holy picket lines, Batman! Marxism and superheroes, part two: the struggle
Sasha Simic looks at how comic book superheroes responded to the Civil Rights movement, strikes and struggle – and to the onset of the Thatcher and Reagan years and 9/11
A critique of the Gotham programme: Marxism and superheroes
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men… Comic book superheroes are big business, they’ve been used as wartime propaganda and condemned for their “lurid, unsavoury, gruesome illustrations”, Sasha Simic reveals
Martin Luther King, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Underground Resistance – WTF is going on?
“Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.”
Bacall, Bogart and the Hollywood Ten
There have been some beautiful and thoughtful obituaries remembering Lauren Bacall.