The German-Turkish-French co-production Yellow Letters by Ilker Çatak is a powerful warning against the threat of censorship and state oppression, including in Germany and other countries.
A current exhibition tracks the development of an anti-imperialist artist who fused modernism with African iconography.
The films reviewed here are collaborations between Israeli and Arab filmmakers and actors seeking to come to grips with the catastrophic consequences of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.
What the social media ban is really about is the attempt to curb the growing politicisation, radicalisation and international networking of youth.
A serious artistic appraisal of the Troubles, and serious attempts to understand their effect at a personal level, would have to begin from a historical and political understanding both of British imperialism and the limitations of bourgeois nationalism.
The second season of The Pitt is being aired in the midst of historical events that have thrust healthcare workers into the spotlight in an unprecedented manner.
With its explosive entry into social consciousness looking ever smaller in the rearview mirror, Squid Game’s third season sets out to close its story saga while seeding potential for a financially lucrative successor.
Reiner has been a household name in the US since his days on the immensely popular situation comedy "All in the Family" in the 1970s.
The German-Turkish-French co-production Yellow Letters by Ilker Çatak is a powerful warning against the threat of censorship and state oppression, including in Germany and other countries.
The films reviewed here are collaborations between Israeli and Arab filmmakers and actors seeking to come to grips with the catastrophic consequences of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.
A growing number of younger filmmakers are turning their attention to history and the current threats to human relationships posed by war, state repression, fascist violence and extreme exploitation.
The film is built around the family life of playwright William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1590s and the death of their 11-year-old son.
A remastered and much improved reissue of the controversial sixth studio album by the British progressive rock band Yes, Tales from Topographic Oceans, has been released as a 50th anniversary super deluxe edition.
Formally, it could be described as a blues-rock album, but it is more importantly a call to fight against the fascist regime emerging in the US. This is a welcome development among popular musicians.
Bad Bunny’s record‑breaking Super Bowl halftime show evoked colonial and immigrant struggles and indirectly rebuked the Trump administration’s xenophobic, anti‑immigrant agenda.
A group of music artists made public statements during their acceptance speeches—Olivia Dean, Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny, in particular—in opposition to the assault by the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the rights of immigrants.
A serious artistic appraisal of the Troubles, and serious attempts to understand their effect at a personal level, would have to begin from a historical and political understanding both of British imperialism and the limitations of bourgeois nationalism.
Gorky’s novel, chronicling the vast social changes and processes that led to the 1917 October Revolution, deserves the widest possible rediscovery and recognition today, a century after being published.
With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to minimize the crimes of Nazism and the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Central to Hellbeck’s analysis is the link between Nazi anti-Semitism and anti-Communism.
The novel takes place in Beirut between 1960 and 2023, its story divided non-chronologically into seven sections.
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.”
