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Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:54

'The Sympathizer': Not Sympathetic Enough

Written by Dennis Broe

HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.” It’s not simply memory that the book and the series are concerned with though, its “representation,” that is social…

Monday, 15 April 2024 10:15

The Good, the Bad and the (possibly) Interesting: Previews of some Spring global TV series

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe previews some upcoming TV series. Image above: Machine, now streaming on Arte What follows are a few global series worth watching in the coming months, along with a few not worth watching, and a few that have at least a curiosity quotient. These prereviews are of series at…

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Friday, 12 April 2024 11:32

The Decline of Streaming Services and the Exploitation of AI for Profit

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe explains the decline in the quality as well as quantity of streamed series, and the exploitative use of Artifical Intelligence by the industry. Photo above: SORA’s “artificial” creation of a walk in Tokyo Last year’s retrenchment in the world of streaming TV is continuing with Netflix holding even…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 10 April 2024 12:57

How to Protest: UK Politics, Press and Propaganda

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Written by Brett Gregory

Brett Gregory interviews Giedre Kubiliute, principal author of Protests and the Media: A Critical Event Studies Exploration into the Future of Protest (Routledge, 2024) BG: Hi, my name is Brett Gregory and I'm an associate editor with the UK arts, culture and politics website, Culture Matters. What follows is a…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 04 April 2024 09:06

George Galloway MP: Mainstream Media’s Latest Sacrificial Lamb

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Written by Matt Alford

Dr. Matt Alford writes about the media campaign against George Galloway In early March, the late night UK comedy show, ‘The Last Leg’, responded to Respect leader George Galloway’s victory in the Rochdale by-election. Presenter Adam Hills called Galloway ‘a professional shit-stirrer … looking mildly more credible than the Monster…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 03 April 2024 20:00

'This Town': Trite, tropey, bloodless, racist guff

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Written by Fran Lock

Fran Lock gives the thumbs-down to This Town. Image above: Bardon Quinn (Ben Rose), Gregory Williams (Jordan Bolger), Dante Williams (Levi Brown) (Image: BBC/Banijay Rights/Kudos) So far there's a lot to loathe about this bafflingly feted BBC drama. I need to get it off my chest, so I'm going to…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 01 April 2024 13:10

The imperialist problem of '3 Body Problem'

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe outlines 3 Body Problem’s imperialist problem. Image above: the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a moment of chaos In Culture and Imperialism, Palestinian scholar Edward Said details how the great works of Western literature are part and parcel of the fabric of imperial domination of the West’s, and in…

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Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:19

All Hail The Uni Party: Democans and Republicrats

Written by Dennis Broe

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All Hail the Uni Party: Democans and Republicrats As the range of debate between the two parties in the U.S. shrinks, election season becomes a time of distorting the differences to make it seem there is an actual choice. One of the greatest aids in fostering this delusion is the…

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Friday, 08 March 2024 12:31

Corporate and alternative media, now and in Los Angeles in the 1950s

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe discusses the opposition between corporate and alternative media, now and in the 1950s. Image above: Charlotta Bass, editor of The California Eagle Today with the wars on Gaza, in the Ukraine, and the possible coming war on China, there is a huge gap between what is being said…

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Friday, 01 March 2024 12:10

The Way: confused resistance rather than class consciousness, in a muddled mix of genres

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews The Way. Above image: Owen brandishing King Arthur’s sword - Mandalorian much? “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore,” about-to-be-fired news anchor Howard Beale screams in a television rant, urging everyone to go to the window and yell the same thing. This…

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Friday, 23 February 2024 11:29

Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An elite gaze on populism and revolution

Written by Dennis Broe

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There are always calls from the right to defund the British Broadcasting Company but they are now being joined by calls from the left as well, as one of the casualties of the genocide in Gaza is the BBC’s own vaunted “objectivity.” That questioning was on display when BBC staff…

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