Film & TV
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 16:19 - 2 Comments
Culture">Tiger King, COVID-19, and the Nature of Work Culture
In its lurid depictions of strange kinds of jobs – idealised and precarious and dangerous – Tiger King perfectly echoes our Lockdown anxieties about the nature and politics of work, write Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 16:36 - 1 Comment
Film">‘Official Secrets’: Can one woman stop a war? Should she have to? Film
By focusing on personalities at the cost of structural issues, 'Official Secrets' ignores too much of the ideological and structural paradigms behind the Iraq War, writes Georgie Carr.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:43 - 2 Comments
Film">“Don’t bother being nice”: ‘Joker’ and the Art of Misogyny Film
Since its release last month Todd Phillips's 'Joker' has garnered both commercial and critical success as a study in alienation and mental illness. Beneath the artfulness, however, is something really horrible, writes Neal Curtis.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, July 25, 2019 16:17 - 0 Comments
Film & TV">Review | ‘When they See Us’ by Ava DuVernay Film & TV
'When They See Us', Ava DuVernay's four-part dramatised chronicling of the story of the Exonerated Five, is gut-wrenching but compelling viewing, writes Asim Qureshi.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 7, 2019 14:15 - 1 Comment
Film">An urgent, necessary homage: “Fanon: Yesterday, Today” by Hassane Mezine Film
“Fanon: Hier, Aujourd’hui,” a landmark documentary film by Hassane Mezine is a worthy homage and testament to Fanon's life and legacy, writes Rachida Lamri.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 15:18 - 0 Comments
Television">‘My Week As a Muslim’: A well-meaning, patronising caricature Television
There is nothing more patronising than watching a brown-faced, caricatured version of yourself repeating your own experiences back to you, writes Samayya Afzal in her review of My Week As a Muslim.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:04 - 0 Comments
Film">Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle Film
Sophia Akram reviews Paul Sng's new documentary, 'Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle', which examines the creeping drive for gentrification in the UK under the guise of regeneration.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, June 28, 2017 11:01 - 0 Comments
Film & TV">Zeus in Gaza: On the cognitive dissonance of watching Wonder Woman Film & TV
For many of us, the progressive pretensions of the new Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot, will strike a bitterly dissonant note in light of Gadot's own problematic positions on Palestine, writes Ali M Latifi.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Friday, April 7, 2017 21:22 - 1 Comment
Film ">‘Get Out’: A bone-chilling, discomfort-inducing, laughter-provoking artistic and political triumph Film
The surprise box office hit of the year, 'Get Out' is as an artistic and political tour-de-force that is as much informed by the Rachel Dolezal saga as it is by Black Lives Matter. Jennifer Izaakson reviews.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 22:51 - 2 Comments
Film">Review | The Journey from Syria: “I wish we could have this life in our country” Film
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad reviews The Journey from Syria, Matthew Cassel's new documentary tracing the remarkable journey of a Syrian refugee from his home in Damascus across half of Europe, and finds "a human story about ordinary lives disrupted by extraordinary circumstances."
