DENNIS BROE examines two new horror films — Send Help and Scream 7 — for the way they demonstrate how capital routinely desensitises the consumer

DENNIS BROE surveys the bias of the US news networks, and recommends alternatives

DENNIS BROE points out that two popular TV series promote police violence and disguise it as ‘fun’

DENNIS BROE searches the literary canon to explore why a duplicitous, lying, cheating, conning US businessman is accepted as Scammer-in-Chief

DENNIS BROE unpicks the subterfuge by which the BBC claims to represent working-class prison life in a new series

DENNIS BROE surveys the new wild west: a technology that aims to “innovate” so fast that no government regulation or union negotiation can keep up

DENNIS BROE waded through 89 TV series this year, and picks the wheat from the chaff

DENNIS BROE says media ownership is not only grossly concentrated in the US, Britain and France – new mergers are advancing the power of the rich to censor the news

The new corporate version of Robin Hood is a betrayal of the anti-colonial hero of the people of yore, suggests DENNIS BROE

DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left

The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation

DENNIS BROE finds much to praise in the new South African Netflix series, but wonders why it feels forced to sell out its heroine