B FI Flare, Europe’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival, is returning with a programme filled to the brim with groundbreaking queer cinema. Over 12 days in March, the festival will take over BFI Southbank to offer heart-wrenching drama, politically-charged documentaries and likely a lot of lust. We’ve had a peek atContinue Reading
W ith international travel being a fairly tricky prospect for the last two summers, those sunny music festivals over in continental Europe have never felt further away. But with things looking as if they’ll open up again in 2022 (fingers and toes crossed, as ever), it’s time to start dreamingContinue Reading
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Review at a glance I n the silent movie classic City Lights, Virgina Cherrill plays the love interest of Charlie Chaplin’s alter ego, the Tramp. As she later told the press, though there were rumours, she never stood a chance of becoming Chaplin’s real girlfriend: “I was much too old.Continue Reading
“ Some Shakespeare plays, where history has overtaken them, should just be buried.” That’s what actor Juliet Stevenson argued earlier this year, singling out The Merchant of Venice as especially problematic for its antisemitic tropes. But what if, instead of shelving them, we tackle them head on? Many directors haveContinue Reading
A Tuesday evening in deepest east London, and a grateful crowd is on its feet and dancing to a hepcat big band with a vibe straight out of the Nuyorican barrios. The tune, Tanga, a raw swirl of clashing horns and driving percussion, is the oldest in a repertoire inspiredContinue Reading
Review at a glance S tonehenge is perhaps the most famous monument in England, built, we now know, around 4,500 BC. That was about the same time as the Great Pyramid at Giza. All right, it’s not quite in that league, but it remains a huge, haunting edifice. How didContinue Reading
A young woman lies in the dark, her face illuminated by the smartphone held inches from her face. The glow of her LED alarm clock tells us it’s two am – the perfect time to embark on a journey through other people’s digital highlights reels. She keeps returning to oneContinue Reading
Review at a glance T hose trying to keep the multiplexes alive must view Tom Holland, aka Spider-Man, as a god. There are surely projector-room shrines across the globe, in which candles flicker beneath posters of Holland’s ruefully perky little face. Is his new Sony blockbuster as glorious as NoContinue Reading
It was always going to send the internet into meltdown. News that former Love Islander Molly-Mae Hague is releasing a memoir entitled ‘Becoming’ at the tender age of 22 is unlikely to sit too comfortably with those who attacked the star’s recent controversial comments on poverty and wealth. The influencerContinue Reading
