Review: Clemency
Before watching Clemency, director Chinonye Chukwu’s meticulous dismantling of the death penalty in America, it is worth reading President Trump’s infamous 1990s full-page ad in The New York...
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How cop shows serve to reinforce the racism at the heart of our culture
Mareike Jenner, Anglia Ruskin University TV police shows are a complicated strand of entertainment. Unsurprisingly, they have come under the cultural microscope in response to police brutality and...
The impact of coronavirus on the artistic scene
The world of entertainment looks dark this year. A great number of events have been cancelled and large concentrations of people banned. Tours, competitions, performances and seasons ended suddenly,...
Recalibrate the media, reconstruct the system, reimagine the police: pointing the way through movies (and a podcast and a web-series)
With trust in the media, in institutions, in each other at a depressing low, it’s important to know how we got here - and how to flip the script. Which is why I’ve compiled an eclectic...
Mystic Quest brings us the quarantine episode everyone needed
While we’ve only just now hit the halfway point to the year, 2020 is already been pretty damned rough. As of writing this, various American cities are in the grips of massive protests and riots...
Midnight Gospel: this is your brain on podcast
Somewhere along the way, it feels like podcasts took over. There is a podcast for everything, and I do mean everything (if you don’t believe me, just google whatever obscure hobby plus the word...
The Romanians Are Coming!: The nonfiction gems of “Making Waves U.S. Tour of Romanian Cinema”
Hard to believe that it’s only been a little over three decades since the people of Romania decided they’d had enough of their country’s communist strongman and rose up to topple his...
Why this is the time for international films
The barriers of subtitles are insurmountable for some people, but a change of habit in what we see in the cinema may allow us more options to explore. Foreign films still find it difficult to reach...
A profile in parental courage: “D. Wade: Life Unexpected”
As its title suggests, D. Wade: Life Unexpected is an unexpected film. The latest offering from ESPN Films and Imagine Documentaries (an offspring of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine...
Resident Evil 3: a horror of preparations
Resident Evil as a franchise has been an incredible success. Most successful series get a good ten years or so, especially horror franchises. But Resident Evil has been going strong for two and a...