JOHN HAWKINS wrestles with the anti-humanist fantasies of techno-feudalist thinking

With reservations, RON JACOBS recommends a deep dive into the nature, history, and mindset of US intelligence

TOM STONE checks the political coordinates of a festival where the pleasures of nostalgia were (sometimes) harnessed to a new message 

by Josie Giles

SIMON PARSONS is beguiled by a dream-like exploration of the memories of a childhood in Hong Kong

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends that these beautifully written diaries from Gaza be essential reading for thick-skinned MPs

BOB NEWLAND doubts the political credentials, but praises the description of the impossible bind of a UN mediator in Libya in the era of Trump

MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Savages, The Legend of Ochi, and The Naked Gun

ANGUS REID is bowled over by a cinematic masterpiece that examines the labour of nursing in forensic, dramatic detail

by Yvonne Reddick

GORDON PARSONS advises you to get up to speed on obscure ancient ceremonies to grasp this interpretation of a late Shakespearean tragi-comedy

STEVE JOHNSON speaks to DJ and singer/songwriter Mark Radcliffe