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The World to Come: an interview with director Mona Fastvold

Alessia Galatini23 July 2021

Does the recent surge in queer films make it any easier for filmmakers wanting to tell LGBTQ stories?...

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Planting Korean seeds on American soil

Allie Liu9 June 2021

Allie Liu explores Minari’s themes of sacrifice and family life and how they reflect back on her own experience...

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What Nomadland teaches us about living life without a plan

Allie Liu4 June 2021

Allie Liu analyses the quiet revolution of this year’s Best Picture...

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The 8th has a clear message: empathy

Ashleigh Riseley21 May 2021

Ashleigh Riseley reviews the new documentary on the history of Ireland’s abortion rights...

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BFI Flare: Tove

Lucy Clarke10 April 2021

Alma Pöysti’s brilliant performance can’t save Tove ...

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BFI Flare 2021: highlights

Pippa Sterk6 April 2021

Pippa Sterk reviews her favourites from London’s iconic LGBTIQ festival...

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BFI Flare: Cowboys

Alessia Galatini23 March 2021

Anna Kerrigan’s LGBT revisionist Western is a much-needed infusion of tenderness...

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With Malcolm & Marie, nothing is black and white

Jenna Kirby24 February 2021

Jenna Kirby dives deep into the exhausting rawness of Levinson’s latest release...

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Cocoon: portrait of a slow transformation

Pippa Sterk17 February 2021

Pippa Sterk interviews director Leonie Krippendorff about her new feature...

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How many more promising young women are we willing to sacrifice?

Alessia Galatini2 February 2021

The latest release by Emerald Fennell is an exercise in gaslighting that stabs you in the back ...

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Tragedy in the Garden of Eden

Carmen Walker-Vazquez19 January 2021

Pieces of a Woman is a destructive tale weighed down by its own symbolism...

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The Prom: too much and not enough

Pippa Sterk29 December 2020

Pippa Sterk is disappointed by the marginalisation of the main queer storyline in Ryan Murphy’s latest release...

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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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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 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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