I can't say I found this movie entertaining. I hadn't seen it when it was released in 2015 because it was poorly reviewed by many critics I share sensibilities with. Then when the whole Time Out t-shirt debacle  happened (Vox did a good explainer on this). I was just totally turned off. I became curious to see the movie … Continue reading History on Film: Class in Suffragette (2015)

All movies can be read as political texts, and with Love on the Dole (1941), this is especially true. Not even five minutes in, we have been ushered into a sympathetic view of the working-class struggle in post-war Britain. The movie opens with a prologue that presents rural 1930s Britain as a bleak place where the people, … Continue reading History on Film: The Politics of Love on the Dole (1941)