Ken Loach

The Best Films of 2023 You May Have Missed

The Best Films of 2023 You May Have Missed

We have a long winter ahead of us. So strap yourselves in and prepare to see the best films of 2023 you may have missed but will want to see.

It’s Man vs State in ‘I, Daniel Blake’

It’s Man vs State in ‘I, Daniel Blake’

Ken Loach’s heartrending drama I, Daniel Blake becomes a blood-pressure-raising exercise in procedural inanity.

The Best Films of 2016

The Best Films of 2016

PopMatters presents a list of the best films that surfaced in 2016 and impressed us with their cinematic visions of where we’ve been.
Cannes 2016: Ken Loach Blasts Britain’s Welfare System in ‘I, Daniel Blake’

Cannes 2016: Ken Loach Blasts Britain’s Welfare System in ‘I, Daniel Blake’

Ken Loach's latest is a well-meaning but disappointing attempt to explore the impact of Conservative benefit cuts in the UK.

Director Spotlight: Ken Loach: The Angels’ Share

‘Kes’: The Bird Appropriate to the Common Man

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

A Fond Kiss (2003)