In a sign of the enormous popular opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the moves toward dictatorship, The Encampments has been met with significant support and enthusiasm.
Filmmaker James Longley sent the WSWS the following eloquent statement, which focuses on the catastrophe in Gaza and the criminals responsible.
The union has isolated the performers for months, leaving them to fight giant corporations on their own.
Thirty-five years after its dissolution, a stream of television films and documentaries continue to be made about the GDR, presenting the state solely as a brutal dictatorship demonstrating the failure of socialism.
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.
Toxic Town, a scandal about birth defects in UK town Corby dramatized in 4 episodes, is streaming now on Netflix.
A powerful new TV series recounts Lockerbie relative and campaigner Jim Swire’s dedicated struggle for the truth behind his daughter’s 1988 murder in the downing of PA103.
Three years after the “survival drama” phenomenon attracted millions of viewers’ attention worldwide, Squid Game’s second season struggles to build on the series’ cracked foundation.
Thirty-five years after its dissolution, a stream of television films and documentaries continue to be made about the GDR, presenting the state solely as a brutal dictatorship demonstrating the failure of socialism.
This is a gripping film, without nostalgic working class romanticism or "proletarian hero" pathos, and also without the moralistically tinged tone of petty-bourgeois intellectuals, which characterises many other socially critical films.
The message of the movie appears not to go beyond the platitudes of MeToo: that “women” although, inevitably the victim, are also “strong,” while men invariably tend to be bad.
Together with The German People, the documentaries The Moelln Letters and The Lie were met with great interest at this year’s Berlin film festival.
How are popular musicians responding—if they are—to deepening social turmoil?
On his latest, country-oriented album, Will Oldham shows concern about the world’s ills, but offers misguided ideas about how to cure them.
Kneecap, the movie is part comedy, part fictionalised music biopic, part contribution to Irish language rights and part investigation of the state of mind of a generation in the North of Ireland.
At her peak, the singer’s music was capable of great depth, sincerity and emotional intimacy, which she seemingly conjured from thin air.
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.
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
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.”
