Skip to main content
Michal Boncza
Marcelo/Armando Solimoes (Wagner Moura) and Dona Sebastiana (Tania Maria) in The Secret Agent (2025) [Pic: IMDb]
Film of the week / 19 February 2026
19 February 2026

MICHAL BONCZA is engrossed by a complex and terrifying, yet respectfully intelligent political thriller set in 1970s Brazil

slavery
Book Review / 3 February 2026
3 February 2026

MICHAL BONCZA welcomes a new version of a classic of British working class literature that should be placed on every school English syllabus

MB al;bums
Album reviews / 21 November 2025
21 November 2025

New releases from Kennedy Administration, Melanie Pain, and Afton Wolfe

MB albums
Album reviews / 28 September 2025
28 September 2025

New releases from Alice Di Micele, Tim Grimm, and Tereza Catarov

sitdowners
Art in the Open / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025

Inspired by a photograph, a unique memorial in Michigan immortalises US true labour heroes. MICHAL BONCZA recalls a great story rarely told

kam
Exhibition review / 22 August 2025
22 August 2025

MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray

FOTW
Film of the week / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025

Despite an over-sentimental narrative, MICHAL BONCZA applauds an ambitious drama about the Chinese rescue of British POWs in WWII

tanner
Meet the Cartoonist / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025

Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet

MB
Album reviews / 23 June 2025
23 June 2025

New releases from Hannah Rose Platt, Kemp Harris, and Spear Of Destiny

Cartoons: (L to R) Citizen Chicane and Songi
Culture / 23 December 2024
23 December 2024
(L to R) the book cover; Labour Party election poster 1945;
Books / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a compact volume that charts the art of propagating ideas across the 20th century
Cairokee play Telk Qadeya (That is a Cause)
Gig review / 5 May 2024
5 May 2024
MICHAL BONCZA reviews Cairokee gig at the London Barbican