Articles on Film

This section contains articles that I’ve written about film

• 125 Years Charlie Chaplin, 100 Years of the Tramp
• Marxism and Art, Part 3: Film Today – Art needs movement
• Rocky Horror Picture Show: A stroke of liberation
• Racism, Repression and Revolution – 50 years Planet Of The Apes
• Favourite films 2018
• Best and Worst of 2019
• My favourite films of the 2010s
• RIP Spartacus
• Cinema between the Lockdowns
• Not such a bad year after all – 2020 in Film
• “Domestic violence is a global problem”: Interview with Chloe Fairweather, director of the film Dying to Divorce
• “Dreams are not lost just because they can’t be realised.” Interview with Sobo Swobodnik, director of a new film about Class and Class Struggle
• Spartacus Article – Director’s Cut
• Best and Worst of 2021
• Don’t Look Up – How a discussion about the need for political debate started to close down debate
• Best of recent German-language Cinema
• 50 Years Cabaret
• Year in Film 2022