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Last Night in Soho: a fine line between pastiche and cliché

Madeleine Feeny2 December 2021

Edgar Wright’s gory dive into 1960s Soho through a fashionista’s eyes spotlights historic crimes but is overall a blunt instrument...

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BFI Film Festival: Rehana

Madeleine Feeny21 October 2021

Madeleine Feeny reviews the Bangladeshi film about the loneliness of whistleblowing ...

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What Motherland gets wrong about breast cancer and why it matters

Alexandra Cocksworth2 September 2021

Alexandra Cocksworth draws from her life experience to discuss media representation of breast cancer...

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Sex/Life: a problem that has no name

Charlotte Barnes27 August 2021

Charlotte Barnes finds similarities between Netflix’s latest show and the seminal Feminine Mystique...

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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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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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Sweet Home: horror, desire and the action woman trope

Amber Wisteria21 March 2021

The latest Netflix release subverts the impossible beauty standards of K-dramas...

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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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Jill and the female carer

Pippa Sterk8 February 2021

It’s a Sin doesn’t offer a recognition of care work but rather an idealisation of it ...

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The Duke of Hastings was raped

Alexandra Cocksworth30 January 2021

Let’s unpack the strange sexual dynamics of Bridgerton ...

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The Wilds is a brave new world

Alessia Galatini14 January 2021

Have you ever wondered what society would be like without men? ...

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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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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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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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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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