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The revolution introduced me to art, and art, in its own turn, brought me to the revolution.

Sergei Eisenstein

The Gangsters in the U.S. Government: Killers of the Harvest Moon

20 October 2023 / 406

Torivio Fodder reviews Scorsese’s new film, arguing that although gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ the biggest thief of Native American wealth was... Continue reading

Torivio Fodder

Films

The Old Oak – and the legacy of great films by Ken Loach

28 September 2023 / 385

Ken Loach’s latest film The Old Oak, opening in cinemas this weekend, may also be his last. At 87, if it really is time for Ken to... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Films

Queer Horror, Marxism and Hollywood

14 September 2023 / 352

Brett Gregory interviews Dr. Darren Elliott-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Film & Gender Studies at the University of Stirling (UK), for Arts Express Brett Gregory: Hi, this is the... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

Films

The Hollywood Renaissance and The Blacklist

13 September 2023 / 342

Brett Gregory interviews Dr. Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford (UK), for Arts Express Brett Gregory: Hi, this is the UK desk... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

Films

Warriors and Domestics: Plotting a New Class-Conscious Course in Cinema

27 August 2023 / 315

Image above: Che (2008 film) directed by Steven Soderbergh. “Just a short time ago it would have seemed like a Quixotic adventure in the colonised, neocolonised, or even the imperialist... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Films

A heartfelt exploration of one of the maestros of modern British cinema: Tracking Loach, by David Archibald

16 April 2023 / 356

Brett Gregory reviews ‘Tracking Loach’ by David Archibald (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) David Archibald’s book, ‘Tracking Loach’, is an academic celebration of Ken Loach’s 60 year career in... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

Films

Changing Society: Nature, Life, and Resistance in Culture Today

1 April 2023 / 314

Caoimhghin O Croidheain reviews Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) and White Tiger (2021) “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free“― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, (Elective Affinities, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809)... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Films

The Banshees of Inisherin

15 January 2023 / 275

International film awards are by no means a good film guide, and this applies as much to The Banshees of Inisherin as to other films. The story... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Films

Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist

12 December 2022 / 399

Brett Gregory was recently interviewed about Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist, a self-funded film that has won a host of international awards. Starring David Howell... Continue reading

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