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Dead Sexy: A Fortnightly Column on Erotic Thrillers

When two passenger airlines crashed into the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001, life changed irreversibly for Americans—and we don’t need reminding of the o […]

Seventy-two lives were taken by the flames that engulfed Grenfell Tower in the early hours of June 14th 2017. Three years on, survivors and bereaved still await answers and results to guarantee safer housing. […]

The hip hop duo Run the Jewels (comprised of rapper/producer El-P and rapper Killer Mike) have always been a cartoonish reflection of American culture but as their albums have progressed, their socio-political […]

Hollyoaks has launched an investigation into racism on set following a statement from Rachel Adedeji where she shared her experiences of racism. This included racist comments from other employees, black actresses […]

Hartley Sawyer, who played the Elongated Man in The Flash, has been fired over resurfaced derogatory tweets. The screenshots of deleted tweets from 2012 and 2014 contained racist and misogynistic comments, as […]

Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and UK Theatre, two of the UK’s biggest theatre membership organisations, have announced their new partnership with Inc Arts. This comes after conversations surrounding # […]

Titles including Maya Angelou’s classic Down in the Delta (1998) and Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman (1996) are now free to watch on Criterion’s streaming platform. The decision to lift the paywall came e […]

With protests against racism and police brutality continuing to grip many countries around the world – several folks are asking themselves what more, beyond that, they can do to be better allies to the black c […]

With the wave of protests and important activism currently sweeping the world, social media platforms such as Twitter have been utilised positively by many to share information, petitions, and support. However, […]

Archaeologists have found the remains of London’s oldest playhouse, The Red Lion, in an excavation project on Stepney Way. The site is the former location of a SafeStore self-storage site, and was set to become a […]

Pet Crow, from Derby, have a captivating sound full of groovy melodies, introduced nicely by their debut album A Small and Medium Guide to Pond Life. The record paid homage to The Slits, new-wave and Britpop, […]

TV Editor James Nash takes a look at the first few episodes of Season 3 of Killing Eve

“Poor Kenny”. Ah, Konstantin — truer words were never spoken. Killing Eve has never been a show to play by the rules […]

You might’ve picked a guitar up a few years ago, played a couple strings and not touched it since. Or you might be a beginner and want to know some classic rock tunes which, while powerful, aren’t too com […]

Imagine being live on TV when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits the studio. The impulse to run for your life is tempting, but you are on live TV and cannot leave your audience hanging. You either assess the […]

Hinds have always been a couple of years ahead of their time.

It is nine years since the original ‘Deers’ duo formed in Madrid and six since ‘Bamboo’ made its ripple. The eventual foursome that would become […]

Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea is a ground-breaking piece of historical fiction that sheds light on a forgotten event in history: the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. The Wilhelm Gustloff was a Nazi hospital s […]

Studio Ghibli has announced that its new project will be Aya And The Witch, based on the children’s book Earwig And The Witch by Diana Wynne Jones. The film is adapted from a story that was penned by the same […]

It’s almost one month since I started reading A Little Life, the Man Booker Prize finalist by Hanya Yanagihara published in 2015. Prior to this, my lockdown reading had been speedy – almost frantic – as I tried […]

Soft blue shirts, ripe peaches, rustling sheet music, urgent kisses.

When Call Me By Your Name was released in 2017, people fell in love with not just the story, but with the very fabric of the filmmaking. […]

Six months in, hope for the new year has all but withered away. In January, America juggled the Israel-Palestine conflict with a messy impeachment trial at home, all the while managing escalating tensions in […]