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Dennis Broe
LONGSTANDING MILITARY TIES: (L) Leo Woodall as ‘sexy mathe
Decoding network TV / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
DENNIS BROE points out that Apple is part of the corporate and state surveillance network which the new series Prime Target rails against
BARE-KNUCKLE: Stephen Graham and Malachi Kirby in A Thousand
TV Series review / 4 March 2025
4 March 2025
DENNIS BROE appreciates the work of TV writer Steven Knight, and his systematic exposure of the debilitating effects of British capitalism
(L) Toby Jones as Alan Bates in Mr Bates Vs The Post Office;
Best of 2024 / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
DENNIS BROE picks his highlights
DEFEATED: Kamala Harris holds up a phone as she phone banks
Features / 7 November 2024
7 November 2024
In sordid tactics that ended up backfiring, Kamala Harris’s ‘nomination’ was the least democratic in history, while the party actively suppressed dissident voices online and its lawyers suppressed third-party candidates from the ballot box, says DENNIS BROE
US election / 3 November 2024
3 November 2024
DENNIS BROE takes issue with the US political Establishment's paranoid inability to look critically at itself and its deeds worldwide and the proclivity for shameless blame games
DEFIANCE: The student encampment at Columbia University, New
BenchMarx / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
DENNIS BROE reflects on how mainstream media has sealed the iron dome in its coverage of the war in Gaza
Jean-Luc Melenchon addresses his supporters
Features / 12 July 2024
12 July 2024
The Melenchon-led NFP coalition now holds most Assembly seats, challenging the president’s anti-worker agenda — the far-right threat remains, but the path to progressive government is now open, writes DENNIS BROE
NO HUMAN NEEDED? Editing, storyboarding and animation all fa
Features / 8 May 2024
8 May 2024
After the recent writers' and actors' strikes, the bosses in film and TV are embracing the cost-cutting potential of AI even faster than before — barely acknowledging that what they will be cutting is livelihoods, writes DENNIS BROE
THE JUNGLE: misrepresenting the Cultural revolution in the 3
Opinion / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
DENNIS BROE unpicks the propaganda strategy that lies behind the Netflix blockbuster The 3 Body Problem
(L) Palestinians flee Gaza City to the southern Gaza Strip,
Opinion / 28 March 2024
28 March 2024
DENNIS BROE interprets the film director’s challenge and the zionist chorus in response to it 
Writers picket the Universal City Studios in Los Angeles, 20
TV series review / 5 March 2024
5 March 2024
To depict workers in Port Talbot as passive, mediatised addicts does no service to reality, muses DENNIS BROE 
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting wit
Features / 11 November 2023
11 November 2023
This weekend’s march in Paris ‘against anti-semitism’ is a divisive smokescreen to allow the president to pose as a unifying force, while pushing forward a new more restrictive immigration policy against Muslims, writes DENNIS BROE
LEADERSHIP: Actor Annette Bening addresses pickets outside N
Features / 1 August 2023
1 August 2023
DENNIS BROE explains the detail in the strikers' case against Hollywood's bosses
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses for a photo wi
Features / 2 March 2023
2 March 2023
Turning on his old allies, the Ukrainian leader’s campaign against inequity has still not done enough to impress the EU assessors — but who are they to pass judgement, asks DENNIS BROE
Lydia McGuinness in North Sea Connection (2022)
Television / 13 November 2022
13 November 2022
Social realist TV helps escape the corporate streaming bubble
Multipolarista, with Ben Norton
Networks Watch / 8 November 2022
8 November 2022
Independent broadcast media confront the information blackout imposed on Western media. DENNIS BROE recommends those that caught his attention
Ossekine, Disney Plus’ first French series
Networks Update / 11 May 2022
11 May 2022
Paradoxically sporadic, politically intelligent productions ameliorate the overall negative trends, writes DENNIS BROE
A woman pushes her bicycle as she looks at campaign posters
Features / 21 April 2022
21 April 2022
The left needs to be aware that primary reason for the rise of the far right in France is Macron’s policies, argues DENNIS BROE
PLAYING THE ROLE: Zelensky in the comedy series Servant of t
Culture / 19 April 2022
19 April 2022
DENNIS BROE looks back over the strange story of the comic actor who played president of Ukraine, only to become president of Ukraine – and asks which of his many faces represents the real Mr Zelensky
Emmanuel Macron has been dubbed ‘president of the rich’
Features / 8 April 2022
8 April 2022
This Sunday's presidential election will see a far-right breakthrough thanks to Macron's inability to deal with the chaos unleashed on the working class by the conflict in the East and sanctions against Russia, writes DENNIS BROE
Colton Underwood in The Bachelor
TV / 20 December 2021
20 December 2021
The first of two instalments offers a glimpse of the present streaming frenzy and who guards the cupboards with the skeletons
OUTSTANDING: Billy Bob Thornton in Goloath
TV / 18 October 2021
18 October 2021
DENNIS BROE finds little to commend in the staple fare on offer
HONOURABLE: Thierry Godard as Toussaint Maheu in Germinal
TV / 21 September 2021
21 September 2021
DENNIS BROE counsels ideological caution when committing to the next batch of ‘series’ visited on us by the predatory networks this autumn
HIGH-END HORTICULTURE: Cannabis greenhouse facility in Denve
BOOKS / 3 August 2021
3 August 2021
How big business cornered the market following drug decriminalisation in the US is a classic example of capitalism at its most ruthless, says DENNIS BROE
Biohackers
Television / 1 December 2020
1 December 2020
Dennis Broe recommends a drama on the pursuit of profit at the expense of human life
SINISTER: A protester holds a board reading: ‘Who protects
Features / 26 November 2020
26 November 2020
The French Global Security Law, which makes it illegal to film police officers, is part of a rightward tilt by Macron, says DENNIS BROE
Still from Two or Three Things I Know About Her... directed
Opinion / 25 November 2020
25 November 2020
There seems to be no questioning the technological imperative both machinic and human, writes DENNIS BROE
SISTER ACT:  Michel Prada and Melissa Barrera in Vida
ONLINE WATCH / 10 September 2020
10 September 2020
Hard-hitting series exposes the gentrification process ravaging US cities
OPINION / 14 July 2020
14 July 2020
DENNIS BROE takes issue with the rose-tinted view of the American revolution promoted in the film Hamilton
COG IN THE NAZI KILLING MACHINE: Otto von Wachter
BOOKS / 3 July 2020
3 July 2020
Indictment of SS officer Otto von Wachter, overseer of the Nazi ‘final solution’ in Poland
TELEVISION / 10 June 2020
10 June 2020
Printing money takes on a whole new meaning in Nextflix's surprise smash-hit
TV SERIES / 19 May 2020
19 May 2020
Home Before Dark is the first must-see series from Apple TV+ after the stumble out of the starting gate that was The Morning Show
HAUNTED: Moa Gammel as Eva Thornblad in Jordskott
FILM / 4 May 2020
4 May 2020
There's a profoundly ecological message buried deep within the horror tropes of Jordskott on Amazon Prime, says DENNIS BROE
Features / 23 March 2020
23 March 2020
Among our neoliberal EU leaders, the old ’60s slogan ‘Eat the rich’ has morphed into ‘Let the poor die,’ says DENNIS BROE
‘WORKERS VERSAILLES’: Karl-Marx-Hof
Urban planning / 13 January 2020
13 January 2020
A century ago, the Austrian capital began a transformation in urban planning which is still a model for affordable and green urban development, says DENNIS BROE
Aux armes, citoyens: Trade unionists march in Marseille
Features / 22 December 2019
22 December 2019
The momentum behind a wave of strikes and protests over pension reforms shows no sight of abating, writes DENNIS BROE
Features / 8 December 2019
8 December 2019
The president may have succeeded in doing something no French leader has done before — uniting all workers against his policies. DENNIS BROE explains why the protests are mounting