Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ was recently nominated for four Academy Awards. With its dark, surreal exploration of conspiracy theories, alienation, and ruling-class parasitism, this film resonates with the widespread outrage against the Epstein class.
Louis Theroux’s latest documentary, ‘Inside the Manosphere’ attempts to penetrate the misogynistic world of Tate-style influencers. In this iteration, however, the filmmaker lets his ordinary stoic mask slip – revealing, at points, the liberal haughtiness of the BBC establishment.
‘Attack of the 50 Foot Comrade’ by RCP member Elleanna Chapman, a recent exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, used pop-culture imagery to display the importance of revolutionary ideas and methods. Elleanna discusses her work with ‘The Communist’.
As Western imperialism pummels Iran, looking for regime change while promising ‘freedom’, Ryszard Kapuściński’s ‘Shah of Shahs’ – first published in 1982 – provides a valuable insight on the rottenness of the imperialist-backed Pahlavi dynasty, leading to its overthrow.
In the latest issue of The Communist, readers review Park Chan-Wook’s black-comedy thriller ‘No Other Choice’; Nia DeCosta’s gory yet hopeful ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’; and Adam Forrest Kay’s examination of stagnating modern science in ‘Escape from Shadow Physics’.
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show has dominated the headlines this week, with its defiant celebration of Latin American culture against a backdrop of Trump’s imperialist provocations across the Americas. But not everyone is happy with this subversive musical performance.
‘Ukrainian Diary’ is the first major UK retrospective of photographer Boris Mikhailov, a key figure in Soviet non-conformist photography. Encompassing 60 years of work, this exhibit sheds light on the complex reality of daily life in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine.
Jesse Welles, an American folk singer from Arkansas USA has captured the burning mood brimming within American society. Welles has tapped into an anti-establishment and anti-war feeling which has invoked an emotive response from many.
History shows us that the limited rights the working class enjoys today were won through bitter class struggle and revolution. ‘Resistance’, a recent photography exhibition in Edinburgh, aptly showcased this in documenting a century of struggle against the British state.
A mega merger is under way in Hollywood over the historic WarnerBros Discovery corporation. The merger has potentially profound implications in how we consume media, the future of cinema, and the whole of artistic culture for an entire generation.
Stravinsky captured the spirit of the modernist movement. The Rite of Spring ballet, published in 1913, was decried as ‘childish barbarity’ by its bourgeois critics at the time. In reality, it only refracted the horrors that would unfold in the next four years of world war.
After two centuries, Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ remains one of the most enduring works of Romantic and Gothic literature, defining much of modern science-fiction. Now, Del Toro’s excellent new adaptation shows it still has room to be developed and reinterpreted.