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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn: A Superb Satire of Petty-Bourgeois Conformism and Capitalist Barbarity
Christos Kefalis, March 25, 2022
Christos Kefalis praises Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude's new film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn as a devastating critique of contemporary Romanian capitalism and defends the director from accusations of anti-communism. Kefalis is a Greek writer and editor of the journal Marxist Thought. Read Article.
Full Time: a Caustic Film About the Inhuman Face of Capitalism
Christos Kefalis, June 20, 2022
Christos Kefalis, editor of the journal Marxist Thought, argues that French director Éric Gravel's new film Full Time (French: Á plein temps) presents a remarkable cinematic social critique of contemporary capitalism. Read Article.
The Implicit Illiberalism of Crimes of the Future
Sam Miller, September 9, 2022
Sam Miller reviews director David Cronenberg's new film Crimes of the Future, arguing that it successfully critiques 'end of history' liberalism. Read Article.
Halloween: Then and Now, and… Forever?
Stephen Tumino, October 19, 2022
Stephen Tumino reacts to the new and supposedly final installment of long-running horror-slasher film franchise 'Halloween' with an analysis of the franchise's trajectory, arguing that the thrust of ideological demystification found in John Carpenter's original has been replaced by a thematic which obscures the reality of contemporary capitalism. Read Article.
The Daily Practice of Partizanship: A Review of Steven de Castro’s 'Revolution Selfie'
Paul Romano, January 19, 2023
Paul Romano reviews documentarian Steven de Castro's 2017 film on the New People's Army (NPA), 'Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion,' and discusses a recent screening and Q&A with de Castro held at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, NY. Read Article.
Not Very Quiet On The Western Front
Francis Babeuf, February 3, 2023
Francis Babeuf reviews director Edward Berger's new Netflix-produced screen adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's 1928 anti-war novel 'All Quiet On The Western Front,' arguing that Berger's alterations of the novel's original narrative produce a reactionary framing of WWI. Read Article.
Bela Lugosi: The People's Horror Star
Hank Kennedy, October 27, 2023
Hank Kennedy profiles actor Bela Lugosi, highlighting the man's often forgotten left-wing politics. Read Article.
The Double Tragedy of Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'
Sam Miller, November 1, 2023
Sam Miller reviews Nolan's 'Oppenheimer,' arguing that although the central character is less Promethean than the opening epigram implies, the film is still effective as tragedy due to its nesting of Oppenheimer's life story in the broader world of U.S. Popular Front Communism. Read Article.