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If there’s one thing the movies get wrong, it’s the circumstances in which the most meaningful emotional revelations happen. You know what I mean: those ‘clouds parting’ moments that force you to see […]

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It’s a fair understatement to say that, historically, criticising the royal family has been one of Britain’s biggest taboos. If one dares to question the dubious actions of a monarch or their relativ […]

Movie Monday: Film Recommendations By Our Contributors

In Safe, Todd Haynes’ 1990s masterpiece, Julianne Moore’s character Carol White is a woman pushed to the very edges of society. 

Her mental illn […]

In the heart of Shoreditch, at an intimate industrial structure known as Village Underground, two hip-hop heavyweights embodied the experimental and boundary-pushing ethos associated with Pitchfork’s annual L […]

Acclaimed Broadway musical director Benjamin Rauhala is coming to Cadogan Hall on Sunday 5 February 2023.

In a new concert entitled Benjamin Rauhala & His West End Besties, Rauhala will be joined by a host of […]

Let me debunk a myth: you don’t have to be a bisexual, veggie-eating, left-leaning, eco-warrior millennial to buy second-hand clothes. Yes, I do happen to fit that description, but I started thrifting way b […]

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is re-opening the renovated Swan Theatre for the first time since the pandemic, for a stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning Hamnet.

Adapted for the stage by […]

A Guide To Birmingham For University Students Labelled as the UK’s second city, it is hard not to see why Birmingham is so popular among students. It holds a […]

I think there’s an important caveat to make before I truly begin my review of The English, which premiered two episodes at the London Film Festival. If someone was to create a TV show to fit in exactly with my t […]

The films I have chosen here are a few of my ‘holy movies.’ These are the ones that stay locked up for years so that watching them will always be a bit like the first time.

Behind them are countless others ( […]

Singer-songwriter Dylan has found the perfect blend of pop-punk and songwriting on her debut new mixtape, The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn. 

Following the success of her No Romeo EP released earlier in 20 […]

Avatar is the film that needs no introduction. 

It is the film that seemingly changed the game for modern blockbusters. The film which pioneered a transition in digital 3D cinema. The film that was so […]

It was only when I was shortlisting the films for this article, that I realised how much my family, and specifically my dad, has influenced my love for film. Most of these picks are in some way tied to him, so […]

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Do Ludwig Wittgenstein and Andy Warhol have much in common besides being considered iconoclastic in their respective fields and having surnames that start with the same letter? Martin Crimp seems to […]

Dame Carmen Callil, founder of the pioneering feminist publishing company Virago Press, died on 17 October at the age of 84. Born in Australia in 1938, the publisher, critic, and writer was instrumental in […]

The game’s already afoot as a new trailer drops for Rian Johnson’s much anticipated Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

A sequel of sorts to his 2019 box-office hit, Glass Onion sees the most welcome ret […]

Suki Waterhouse’s aptly named Milk Teeth is an EP featuring many of her most evocative singles. Six months after her successful debut album I Can’t Let Go, the musician and actress looks back on her early car […]

As someone we all hoped would be in the Little Mermaid live-action remake, Harry Styles has delivered by turning himself into a squid in his new music video. 

The opening track on Harry House, ‘Music for a Su […]

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Having played in Derby and soon to be in Edinburgh from 10 to 12 November, feminist theatre company Stellar Quines’ production Sister Radio is an intimate and engaging look into the lives of two Iran […]

It’s “The One Where Chandler Tells His Story”. Matthew Perry’s memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, dictates the ups and downs of the actor’s life as he gained huge popularity in the […]