The Correspondent: The frameup and incarceration of Australian journalist Peter Greste
Kriv Stender’s dramatic feature is limited by its perfunctory examination of the explosive political developments in Egypt that preceded Greste’s incarceration.
Kriv Stender’s dramatic feature is limited by its perfunctory examination of the explosive political developments in Egypt that preceded Greste’s incarceration.
There are many difficult, urgent social, political and cultural problems at present. And there are numerous filmmakers willing to address them, to one extent or another.
Donald Trump issued a rambling and incoherent post on his Truth Social platform that included a thinly veiled incitement to violence against Bruce Springsteen.
More than 30 sources who served with or alongside UK Special Forces described the murder of unarmed Afghans in their sleep; the execution of handcuffed detainees, including children; psychotic killing raids; personal kill tallies; and the systematic cover-up of all incriminating evidence.
The documentary shows the settlers in their role as the Israeli state’s advanced guard in the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of the Palestinians.
The drama is made all the more convincing by fine acting, including by Edison Alcaide as Jean Charles, and the fact that the filmmakers worked closely with the De Menezes family.
Annual television production in Los Angeles declined by 58.4 percent in just three years.
The series asks how 13-year-old Jamie came to be capable of stabbing to death his schoolmate Katie, addressing themes of social breakdown, parenting, social media, bullying and the many malign influences on young men and boys.
Kriv Stender’s dramatic feature is limited by its perfunctory examination of the explosive political developments in Egypt that preceded Greste’s incarceration.
There are many difficult, urgent social, political and cultural problems at present. And there are numerous filmmakers willing to address them, to one extent or another.
To find in reality the basis for changing the existing state of things, the artist has to approach reality with anger and partisanship.
The phrase “precarious work” may be metaphorical in some cases, but in the unstable and perilous existence Souleymane leads the “precariousness” is real and ever-present.
Donald Trump issued a rambling and incoherent post on his Truth Social platform that included a thinly veiled incitement to violence against Bruce Springsteen.
Thousands of musicians, artists and music industry professionals, including many past participants in the European Song Contest, have condemned the mass murder in Gaza.
The updated version of the 1972 concert film was released on April 24 at select cinemas and IMAX theaters internationally. It has been remastered with surround audio and restored digitally from the original 35mm film.
West, one of the most financially successful rap music entertainers in history, has emerged as an unrestrained admirer of fascism in recent years.
Depicting the November 24, 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the Channel opens a window onto the crimes committed against migrants all over the world.
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
The mass anti-government agitation in Sri Lanka “was the result of real class differences in our society, the divisions between the haves and the have nots” – Prasanna Vithanage
One of his most accomplished works is Omar, a 2013 film about a young Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) who becomes involved in complex political and moral matters.
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”