Film
Guy Taylor watches an important and urgent film about refugees in Greece caught between the repression of Fortress Europe and the street violence of Golden Dawn
Mark Pendleton reviews two film histories of the inspiring story of AIDS activism in the US
Filmmakers Mike Wayne and Deirdre O’Neill discuss their new Engels-inspired documentary, The Condition of the Working Class, with Clive James Nwonka
Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45 is not just an exercise in nostalgia but a compelling intervention into the politics of the present, writes Alex Nunns
Brian Precious reviews a documentary that shows the calculated brutality of Israel’s security services – using their own words
Michael Pooler reviews a film that gives an alternative view of the 2011 riots
Koos Couvée reviews a film about the riots that gives a different point of view
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
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
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'
As a digitally restored version is released, Michael Pooler revisits Jean Renoir's anti-war masterpiece
Jody McIntyre and Pablo Navarrete report on Venezuela’s Hip Hop Revolución movement
Siobhan McGuirk speaks to John Akomfrah about his new film – and the 2011 riots
Filmmaker Clive Nwonka responds to the recently published UK Film Policy Review paper, and David Cameron’s questionable stance on film funding.
Sean Gittins talks to Mark Kermode about modern cinema and the role of the film critic
Selina Nwulu reviews new civil rights movement documentary Black Power Mixtape
Polemic documentary challenges sensationalist media portrayal of youth crime, but suffers from staid approach and lack of young voices, says Georgia Rooney
Amy Hall reviews the film 'Unwatchable' but finds real life even more disturbing
Siobhan McGuirk on the way inspiring new documentary Just Do It was made
Siobhan McGuirk reviews ‘Cocaine Unwrapped’, a documentary that asks good questions but avoids too many answers
Siobhan McGuirk traces the history of social realism in British cinema as the genre starts to make a comeback
Social realism was a strong tradition in British cinema. Clive James Nwonka argues that we need it as much as ever
Severed limbs and a splatter of anti-capitalism. Raph Schlembach watches Machete
J. Sadie Clifford on John Pilger's latest documentary.
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.'
In his best work, director John Ford depicted a complex world through the lens of an understated but powerful critique says Mike Marqusee
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.
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 […]
Samuel Grove reviews South of the Border, directed by Oliver Stone
Emilie Bickerton celebrates Cahiers du cinéma, the French film journal that insisted on seeing film as an art form
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
Derek Wall reviews Pablo Navarrete's new documentary
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 annual Human Rights Watch film festival promises to highlight the power of the human spirit - and it doesn't disappoint, writes Angela Saini
Will Atkinson talked to Ken Loach
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
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 […]
