Film

Riot from Wrong: An example of what journalism could look like November 2012
Koos Couvée reviews a film about the riots that gives a different point of view

Film: Who Polices the Police? October 2012
Ken Fero, director of 'Who Policies The Police?' writes about the making of the film which examines the complicity of the IPCC in deaths in custody and the struggle of one family for justice

Ill Manors, reductionist politics? June 2012
Plan B's debut film portrays extreme anti-social behaviour in working-class and ethnic minority communities. The film could prove to be Conservative propaganda for Broken Britain, argues Clive Nwonka

Review: The Missing Billions June 2012
As UK Uncut win their case at the high court to challenge the Goldman Sachs tax deal, Kitty Webster reviews the new documentary 'The Missing Billions'

Review: La Grande Illusion April 2012
As a digitally restored version is released, Michael Pooler revisits Jean Renoir's anti-war masterpiece

Venezuela’s hip-hop revolutionaries March 2012
Jody McIntyre and Pablo Navarrete report on Venezuela’s Hip Hop Revolución movement

Epitaph to a generation: John Akomfrah interview March 2012
Siobhan McGuirk speaks to John Akomfrah about his new film – and the 2011 riots

Blockbusters only please, we’re British! January 2012
Filmmaker Clive Nwonka responds to the recently published UK Film Policy Review paper, and David Cameron’s questionable stance on film funding.

A night at the multiplex: an interview with Mark Kermode December 2011
Sean Gittins talks to Mark Kermode about modern cinema and the role of the film critic

Review: Black Power Mixtape December 2011
Selina Nwulu reviews new civil rights movement documentary Black Power Mixtape

Review: The Fear Factory November 2011
Polemic documentary challenges sensationalist media portrayal of youth crime, but suffers from staid approach and lack of young voices, says Georgia Rooney

Unwatchable October 2011
Amy Hall reviews the film 'Unwatchable' but finds real life even more disturbing

Crowd allowed August 2011
Siobhan McGuirk on the way inspiring new documentary Just Do It was made

Film review: Unwrapping the drugs debate July 2011
Siobhan McGuirk reviews ‘Cocaine Unwrapped’, a documentary that asks good questions but avoids too many answers

From kitchen sink to fish tank June 2011
Siobhan McGuirk traces the history of social realism in British cinema as the genre starts to make a comeback

Empty tank June 2011
Social realism was a strong tradition in British cinema. Clive James Nwonka argues that we need it as much as ever

Machete: The action hero gets political February 2011
Severed limbs and a splatter of anti-capitalism. Raph Schlembach watches Machete

Review: The war you don’t see December 2010
J. Sadie Clifford on John Pilger's latest documentary.

The media war you don’t see December 2010
Red Pepper's Latin America editor Pablo Navarrete interviews John Pilger ahead of the release of his new film, 'The War You Don't See.'

An idealist and a sceptic September 2010
In his best work, director John Ford depicted a complex world through the lens of an understated but powerful critique says Mike Marqusee

South of the Border July 2010
Oliver Stone's new documentary chronicles the emergence of progressive governments in Latin America. Roberto Navarrete talks to him and Tariq Ali, one of the film's scriptwriters.

Fierce urgency July 2010
Beyond the Tipping Point? Director: Stefan Skrimshire ‘That it goes on like this is the catastrophe,’ the German critic Walter Benjamin once wrote, a comment all the more prescient given that our present lifestyles threaten to change the climate beyond the point of reversability. This film is not about the climate science behind the suggestion [...]

Left tide July 2010
Samuel Grove reviews South of the Border, directed by Oliver Stone

Journal de combat June 2010
Emilie Bickerton celebrates Cahiers du cinéma, the French film journal that insisted on seeing film as an art form

Just say yes October 2009
As the anti-corporate pranksters the Yes Men launched their new film, {Red Pepper} dispatched Brendan Montague to meet them and get the lowdown on their unusual form of activism

Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela August 2009
Derek Wall reviews Pablo Navarrete's new documentary

Waltz with Bashir is nothing but charade February 2009
The Israeli film considered favorite to win an Oscar for best foreign language film lost out, but Gideon Levy, for one, was not disappointed by this decision

The power to prevail June 2008
The annual Human Rights Watch film festival promises to highlight the power of the human spirit - and it doesn't disappoint, writes Angela Saini

When the enemy is at the door March 2008
Will Atkinson talked to Ken Loach

Letting people speak March 2008
Siobhan McGuirk talks to Kim Longinotto about the growing interest in documentaries, their potential power to move and stir people and explores what kind of documentaries give people a sense of agency

The films we miss and why March 2008
There are some really interesting Italian films coming out – probably Hungarian, French and Polish ones too – but you’d never know it. We are still suffering the results of post-war agreements that gave the US film industry the power to dominate our culture as if films were like motor cars. The Italian champion of [...]