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Sunday, 15 November 2020 16:30

Lovecraft Country: Liberating 1950s Apartheid America One Monster At A Time

Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe continues his review of new TV series. Image above: Battling Housing Segregation in '50s Chicago, from Lovecraft Country It’s now a done deal with the series already out in its entirety, but the best pilot and one of the best shows of the year is HBO’s Lovecraft Country.…

Black Lives Matter Underground

Friday, 11 September 2020 09:52

‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification “But with a little sex”

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews Vida and some other of the latest series on streaming services. Image above:Vida’s Mari (Chelsea Rendon) as neighbourhood activist All over the news today are articles about a new kind of white flight, again as in the 1960s to the suburbs, but this time it is also…

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Saturday, 22 August 2020 08:55

The Finales of Fearless and Perry Mason: How to End and How Not to End a Serial TV Season

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe continues his series on TV series, looking at Fearless and the new Perry Mason. Image above: Peaky Blinders’ Helen McCrory as crusading defense attorney in Fearless There was a lot of fanfare recently around the wrapping up of HBO’s remake of Perry Mason – which unfortunately has a…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 16 August 2020 08:30

Green Frontier and Wild District: The Bolivarian vs. The Bolsonarian Revolution

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe reviews Green Frontier and Wild District, two shockingly different approaches to South American struggles for political liberation. The image above is from Green Frontier Two series from Colombia, Green Frontier and Wild District, both Netflix originals and both made by the same production house, Dynamo, stake out the…

Netflix Guerra

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 04 August 2020 15:56

Broadcasting and Beyond: proposals for progressive media

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Written by Rod Stoneman

Rod Stoneman outlines proposals for developing new, more radical and progressive media You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. It comes from non- conformity – the courage to invent the future. - Thomas Sankara. Recently sketching an account of my experiences working in Channel 4…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 27 July 2020 09:59

A Strange Bird: Comcast and Universal's Peacock streaming service

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe continues his review of series TV with a sceptical look at Comcast and Universal's Peacock, the latest streaming service from the world of capitalist media conglomerates Do we need yet another television network/movie studio/cable station conglomerate turned into a streaming service whose main contribution is to put its…

Brave New World The Office

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 13 July 2020 15:35

They Stream Movies Don’t They? City of Tiny Lights and Hamilton

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe continues his review of series TV with an analysis of City of Tiny Lights and Hamilton. Image: Tommy Akbar amidst the neon in City of Tiny Lights Although the highlight and main attraction of most streaming services is always new series and seasons of serial TV, they also…

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Sunday, 05 July 2020 08:51

Perry Mason and The Case of the Missing Case

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews the new HBO Perry Mason series on Sky. There are many things to like about HBO’s new version of one of the most popular book and television series of all time, Perry Mason, which is available in Britain on Sky and in France on OCS. This young…

Tuesday, 23 June 2020 09:37

Take away their power: climate breakdown and the corporate media

Written by David Cromwell

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David Cromwell outlines the way the media is beholden to corporate capitalism, and calls for a radical democratisation of ownership and control of the broadcast and print media In his classic science fiction novel, 'Foundation', Isaac Asimov posited a future in which 'psychohistorians' could predict outcomes based on past history…

Monday, 22 June 2020 10:10

The global drug pandemic, police supremacism and the corruption of film-makers

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe focuses on the global drug pandemic, dealt with in different ways in three new series Three new series deal variously with the drug pandemic, that byproduct of the despair that has grown in the wake of neoliberal capitalism. As opportunities shrink because of a global upward redistribution of…

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Monday, 22 June 2020 08:53

Covid-19 and the ownership and control of the media

Written by Natalie Fenton

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Natalie Fenton points to the need for less concentrated ownership and more democratic control of the media, in the wake of the Covid-ap pandemic. The media are vital purveyors of information and interrogators of power in a pandemic where a government’s decisions translate directly into lives lost or saved. In…

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