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  • TV Review: 'Three Little Birds' – Brave, funny and gut-wrenching stories from the spirited Windrush generation    Three Little Birds is a well-executed time-capsule drama that provides an education, through entertainment, […]

  • ‘Fast X’ Review: A ‘Fast & Furious’ Tale Of Paternal Love and Meticulously Violent Insanity Fast X tells the story of three extremely different father-son relationships, each of which is hinged on a […]

  • black-ish season eight has finally come to Disney Plus, after much anticipation fuelled by clips revealing a star-studded cast. Despite perhaps bingeing on these clips via the black-ish instagram, the joys of […]

  • ★★★★★

    The Fellowship is a play featuring two sisters, Marcia, played by actress Suzette Llewellyn, and Dawn, played by Cherrelle Skeete. The pair reminisce often about their experiences growing up as the child […]

  • A naive black college student makes one bad decision after another about a white girl he finds passed out on his living-room floor.  

    ★★★✰✰

    Emergency is a film about three college friends, whose plans of go […]

  • Sneakerella tells the tale of a sneaker empire built by a teenager and his fashion-royalty love interest. 

    ★★★★★

    Sneakerella is the tale of a young black boy called El, played by actor Chosen Jacobs, fr […]

  • ★★★★✰

    From start to finish you are invited to laugh and cry with Little D like he is your very own little brother.

    Sunny Side Up is a one-man-play about Little D, who narrates his coming of age story. He […]

  • *Spoilers ahead for the final season of Queen of the South*  

    The highly-anticipated fifth and final season of Queen of the South has finally come to Netflix UK. Season Four made its UK debut in June 2020, a […]

  • Theatre Peckham will launch the first Peckham Fringe Festival this spring.

    For five weeks starting on 2 May, 27 external companies will take over the main theatre and studio spaces Theatre Peckham offers. The […]

  • The BRIT Awards, presented by comedian Mo Gilligan, started on a heavy-metal note. Ed Sheeran and Bring Me the Horizon performed ‘Bad Habits’.

    In total 13 genderless awards were presented during the course of […]

  • Nominees for the 94th Academy Awards have been announced today, with Dune And The Power Of The Dog receiving double-digit nominations.

    Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog dominated nominations receiving 12 i […]

  • ‘Somebody’s Son’ by Tiwa Savage, featuring Brandy, is a song about waiting for the day a man will walk into your life. Not just any man but the right man. Your Prince Charming, if you will. The kind of man you w […]

  • ★★★★✰

    Malindadzimu is the story of a mother and daughter duo, Faith and Hope, who transition faster than the speed of light from a life in Nottingham to one in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. This sudden move comes aft […]

  • Hymn is the story of step brothers, Gilbert and Benny, discovering each other after the passing of their father. Their father lived a less than ‘holy’ life, having an extra-marital affair and telling his mis […]

  • Little Simz’s new single ‘I Love You, I Hate You’ is a powerful insight into the conflicting feelings she has about her father. It is clear that she has had years to process these feelings, yet reaching no concl […]

  • The stage is a lone perfect square, slightly elevated and covered with what appears to be gravel. The sight of it conjures up the saying ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust’—a line from the Book of Common Prayer recit […]