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Happiest Season can be both silly and a revolution

Alessia Galatini24 December 2020

Alessia Galatini ponders why the LGBT community tends to hold queer films to a higher standard than mainstream fare ...

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Fat activism on film

Lissy Lovett17 December 2020

Lissy Lovett is cheered by Barbican’s programme focusing on fat bodies...

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What does gender-based violence look like?

Alessia Galatini29 November 2020

16 Days 16 Films 2020 tackles the issue of gender-based violence with poignancy but without trauma...

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Throwback Thursday: The Watermelon Woman

Pippa Sterk20 November 2020

A new monthly thread looks back at classic films through a modern lens ...

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Against the Tides doesn’t quite turn the tide on the disablist discourse

Antonia Louisa Georgiou15 November 2020

Antonia Louisa Georgiou reviews the new documentary on British marathon swimmer Beth French...

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Wicked Winters: production company with a difference

Alessia Galatini3 November 2020

Novelist and filmmaker Jade Winters talks to Alessia Galatini about her exciting journey from a romance novel writer to a crime film director...

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New Nigerian film For Maria Ebun Pataki breaks the silence

Alessia Galatini28 October 2020

Unspoken, unseen and unforgiving: we need to talk about postpartum depression ...

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Why was this needed?

Pippa Sterk21 October 2020

Pippa Sterk offers her take on the 2020 adaption of The Boys in the Band ...

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New British horror makes vampirism the new domesticity

Alessia Galatini17 October 2020

Alessia Galatini interviews the director and producers of Rose: A Love Story, which premiered at BFI London Film Festival...

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Shouldn’t we all be Greta?

Alessia Galatini16 October 2020

“I am Greta” is a raw glimpse into the life of the climate change activist...

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The untold story of those who disappeared

Ania Ostrowska15 October 2020

Ania Ostrowska interviews the filmmakers behind "To see you again", a heartbreaking documentary about an uncovered abuse of power...

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Rocks: a timeless yet refreshing exploration of friendship and girlhood

Genevieve Richardson3 October 2020

Let’s talk about Rocks without invoking the ambiguous marker of ‘authenticity’...

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Throwback thursday: Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Pippa Sterk1 October 2020

A new monthly thread looks back at classic films through a modern lens...

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Beyond the red light

Pauline Blanchet29 September 2020

A new British documentary explores the impact of Covid-19 on sex work...

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The hypocrisy of the Cuties controversy

Antonia Louisa Georgiou28 September 2020

Antonia Louisa Georgiou argues that, while the voyeurism of Cuties’ trailer repulses viewers, male directors are getting away with far worse...

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Make Up: sexuality, monsters and caravans

Olivia Neilson17 September 2020

Olivia Neilson is struck by the powerful queer allegory of Oakley’s feature debut...

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A new era for the dance movie

Pippa Sterk26 August 2020

Why there is more behind Netflix's latest trend than a cliched plot...

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“Your life is either defined by the system or by the way you defy the system”

Alessia Galatini6 August 2020

Netflix documentary Disclosure explores trans representation in media...

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