Reviews and Culture

Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, directed by Jane Schoenbrun

By Keisha Taylor This review contains spoilers Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a defiant celebration of queer joy and triumph over trauma and provides some welcome relief from the increasing hostility faced by women and LGBTQ+ people in this

Sep 23, 2026

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and the responsibility of artists during a genocide

“Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft.” By Kate Marie These were the words of Benjamin Netanyahu as he presented Kraft, the Zionist multibillionaire owner of the New England Patriots, with the Genesis Prize in Jerusalem in 2019.

Sep 17, 2026

Review: We Only Want the Earth: The Life & Ideas of James Connolly, directed by Alan Gilsenan

By Chris Stewart There is perhaps no figure in Irish history whose legacy is more distorted than James Connolly. Time and again, pro-capitalist politicians invoke his name as a nationalist hero of 1916, while taking great pains to gut his memory of

Sep 2, 2026

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History

Review: The Story of Capital by David Harvey

Reviewed by Chris Stewart Influential Marxist geographer and economic theorist, Professor David Harvey, has helped millions of people gain an understanding of how capitalism works through his many books and online lectures. In The Story of Capital, Harvey sets out to elucidate

Aug 25, 2026

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Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab directed by Kaouther Ben Hania

Reviewed by Conor Tormey Over the course of nearly three years, there have been countless horrific images, videos, and accounts of death, destruction and devastation from the Gaza Strip. All of which expose the unimaginable cruelty of the Zionist state’s ongoing genocide

Aug 7, 2026

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Review: The Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan

By Varun Making a movie is not an easy task but shooting it entirely on 70mm IMAX film and editing it entirely by hand using a vintage 1940s-style splicer, glue, scissors, and physical film with precise edge-code numbers in 2026 is a

Jul 30, 2026

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Review: Satluj directed by Honey Trehan

By Adil Sayyed Films have always been political, and their influence can threaten political mechanisms, as seen when Satluj, a new historical drama from India, was taken down from a streaming platform mere two days after its release. No official reason was

Jul 16, 2026

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Review: Obsession directed by Curry Barker

Reviewed by Jonathan Diebold What if wishes really could come true? And what if the power to make such a wish was granted to a man who, behind his “nice guy” facade, feels a deep sense of entitlement and resentment towards the

Jun 14, 2026

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Review: Project Hail Mary directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

By Aislinn O’ Keeffe Spoiler Alert Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi adaptation of a novel by Andy Weir, published in 2021. The story revolves around teacher Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, who wakes up to find himself alone on a spaceship

May 18, 2026

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Review: Akira (1988) directed by Katsuhiro Otomo (re-released in 4K, 2026)

By Jonathan Diebold In the middle-part of the 20th century, as the post-war economic boom took hold, for some, the economic and technological progress of capitalism seemed unstoppable. This idealistic outlook was reflected in what has been described by critics as the

Apr 28, 2026

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Review: Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere

Reviewed by Manus Lenihan In the 2007 documentary The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux interviewed members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group that protested the funerals of dead soldiers and did paranoid, homophobic covers of Lady Gaga songs.

Mar 19, 2026

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