Tom Jennings

Tom Jennings chuckles at a recent New Labour rat leaving the sinking ship.

Belying his miserabilist reputation, Mike Leigh’s new film Happy-Go-Lucky celebrates incorrigible optimism – but with the usual twists, finds Tom Jennings

A rash of TV documentaries explain away tense British resident-immigrant relations with typical middle-class prejudice in reproducing forty years of media and state-managed mystifications of the ravages of capitalism, according to Tom Jennings.

Tom Jennings is relieved that Ben Affleck’s first film as director, the thought-provoking Gone, Baby, Gone, avoids the ham sentimentality of much of his acting

Radical cultural critic analysing different elements within popular culture.

A comparison of UK near-future nightmares, including Taking Liberties, Faceless, Children Of Men, The Last Enemy, Exodus and Polly II: A Plan For Revolution in Docklands.

Review of Ang Lee’s Chinese wartime espionage drama, the follow-up to Brokeback Mountain.

Juggling simplistic stereotypes, Channel 4’s Britz illuminates neither the attitudes of UK Muslims nor the motivations of homegrown jihadists, concludes Tom Jennings.

Tom Jennings’ review of Michael Moore’s new documentary tragi-comedy on the American health (dis)service

Review of The Street, series 2 - the latest TV drama from Jimmy McGovern .