I Saw the TV Glow: A life unfulfilled
Jane Schoenbrun’s film is an enigmatic, at times disturbing portrait of a socially alienated youth.
Carlos Delgado•
With closure of Ontario Science Centre, Conservative Premier Ford attacks science, education and the working class
Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Ford’s snap decision to order the immediate and permanent closure of the Ontario Science Centre, located in a working class Toronto neighbourhood, has provoked widespread popular opposition.
Carl Bronski•
Venice Film Festival—Filmmakers powerfully denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The Israeli genocide in Gaza was denounced by a number of leading filmmakers at the final awards ceremony of the 81st Venice film festival held last Saturday.
Stefan Steinberg •
“A shame and a sham”
Noguchi Museum in New York City fires workers for opposing Gaza genocide
The museum has begun firing staff who wear Palestinian keffiyehs to work.
Sandy English•
Hong Jian•
Kevin Reed•
Richard Phillips•
Pani Wijesiriwardena, Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
UK’s Prince Andrew and the 2019 BBC interview on his relations with Jeffrey Epstein: Scoop
The interview was intended by the prince’s handlers to limit the damage created by Andrew’s well-publicized relations with financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, by then already deceased.
David Walsh•
Reject IATSE sellout contract—Organize rank-and-file committees!
The two Memorandums of Agreement were released July 10 on IATSE websites, only four days before entertainment workers were scheduled to begin voting on the deals.
Hong Jian, David Walsh•
Bridgerton: Season 3 of the anti-history
The series offers not so much an alternative history, as an anti-history, aimed above all at an upper-middle class audience fixated on the politics of race and gender.
Clare Hurley•
Fallout: Amazon’s atomic disaster series falters badly
The Amazon Prime series based on the role-playing game of the same title, depicts—in a puerile and unserious manner—the conditions in the US 200 years after a nuclear war.
Cordell Gascoigne•
David Walsh•
Paul Bond•
Paul Bond•
Ed Hightower•
Fred Mazelis•
I Saw the TV Glow: A life unfulfilled
Jane Schoenbrun’s film is an enigmatic, at times disturbing portrait of a socially alienated youth.
Carlos Delgado•
Prasanna Vithanage’s Paradise: Police brutality and a marriage implosion amidst Sri Lanka’s economic collapse
Paradise is a poignant and compelling film that reveals much about Sri Lanka’s social relations and will resonate with workers and youth around the world.
Pani Wijesiriwardena, Richard Phillips•
UK’s Prince Andrew and the 2019 BBC interview on his relations with Jeffrey Epstein: Scoop
The interview was intended by the prince’s handlers to limit the damage created by Andrew’s well-publicized relations with financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, by then already deceased.
David Walsh•
The Delinquents: A promising heist film seeks a false escape route
The promising and sensitive Argentine film The Delinquents depicts the stresses of daily life in an engaging way and suggests that a criminal enterprise may be the way out, only to find another exit in utopian romanticism.
Penny Smith•
Carlos Delgado•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Erik Schreiber•
David Walsh•
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra doubles down against British-Australian pianist Jayson Gillham
The law firm defending MSO censorship is prominent in the barrage of legal action against artists, journalists and other public figures opposing Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
Richard Phillips•
“Tryin’ hard to separate the facts from the tinfoil”
Lupe Fiasco, Chief Keef and Previous Industries: A cross section of current hip-hop
The following brief reviews will examine three hip-hop albums that were released in the past few months and received critical notice.
Erik Schreiber•
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko to make first US appearance in six years
Netrebko’s career has continued to flourish in Europe.
Fred Mazelis•
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancels performance over dedication to murdered Palestinian journalists
The MSO publicly attacked pianist Jayson Gillham because he condemned Israel’s murder of more than 100 Palestinian journalists and noted that such killings violate international law.
Oscar Grenfell•
Nick Barrickman•
Our reporters•
James Brewer•
Erik Schreiber•
Kevin Reed•
Book Review: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
Contemporary lessons from the slave power’s plot to overturn the 1860 election
Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.
Eric London•
Bankers in the Ivory Tower by Charlie Eaton
The financialization of higher education and the fight against war
Eaton’s book traces the financialization of higher education from the 1980s through the 2010s, which underlay the subordination of academia to Wall Street and the war machine of US imperialism.
Emma Arceneaux•
The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Zola, Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism
Zola was an eloquent opponent of obscurantism and reaction, and played a major role in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism.
Fred Mazelis•
David North’s The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide addresses the disastrous consequences of nationalist political programs
The series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
Tom Peters•
James McDonald•
Eric London•
James McDonald•
James McDonald•
Mike Head•
Interview with Hany Abu-Assad, Palestinian filmmaker (Paradise Now, Omar): “Gaza is the Bastille of our day … a lot is going to change”
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.
David Walsh•
Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage denounces Israeli genocide in Gaza
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Roger Stahl discusses Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood with WSWS
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.”
Richard Phillips•
An interview with Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee: “One of the characteristics of sick societies … is that they don’t give you any good choices”
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Vimukthi Vidarshana and Shree Haran•
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
Frank Anderson•
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