In the past fortnight I have had the misfortune (somewhat self inflicted) to have seen both Wanted and Priceless in the cinema and following Peter Bradshaw’s review of Wanted, I wanted to compare the two to see which was (a) more misogynist and (b) worse .
Bradshaw describes women in Wanted as being represented by:
‘irrelevant sleek babes [...]
I saw Persepolis earlier this week, and it was the charming and life-affirming antidote to everything that I was lamenting in cinema recently. Stark and seemingly simple in its greyscale animation it tells a very human and universal story of growing up, only against the backdrop of the Iranian revolution.
Marji is one of the most [...]
Tariq Nasir screened his film, Belonging, in cooperation with the Frontline Club and the Human Rights Watch at the Arcola theatre in Stoke Newington on Monday Night. It attempts to put a human face on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. It charts the passage of two generations of the American-Palestinian Nasir family through the eyes of [...]