Jeymes Samuel: ‘Movie westerns have lied to us our whole lives’
Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall represents the Old West in a bold and dynamic debut feature that follows Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) as he seeks revenge on Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) and his...
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Lingui, the Sacred Bonds
Lingui is the Chadian word for ‘Sacred Bonds’, and in director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s taut and poetic feature, questions of who and what we are indebted to are both challenged and reaffirmed. Single...
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Marry Me
In Kat Coiro’s Marry Me, jack-of-all-trades Jennifer Lopez finds herself reprising the role she’s always been strongest in – that of a beautiful celebrity earnestly pulled between looking for love and...
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Nope
In Jordan Peele’s latest masterpiece, we meet OJ and Emerald Haywood, a brother and sister duo played respectively by Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, as they take on the family business – Haywood’s...
View ArticleThe Woman King
With The Woman King, director Gina Prince-Bythewood masterfully helms the epic woman led action film she has been building toward over her 20-year career. It focuses on an all-woman warrior unit...
View ArticleTill
Before the film Till was seen, the need for its existence was called into question. ‘Another exhausted Hollywood depiction of Black suffering,’ the online chorus sang, as though stamping the truth of...
View ArticleChinonye Chukwu: ‘I felt that the camera cannot be a voyeuristic lens’
Chinonye Chukwu made considerable waves with her 2019 feature Clemency, and her second feature, Till, focuses on the true story of 14-year-old Emmett Till who was lynched in Mississippi in 1995. His...
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The bleak, blistering end of Bill Hader’s Barry
After four seasons, HBO’s Emmy winning comedy Barry, has come to an end, finally answering the question that has run throughout its four seasons: Can you change your nature? Bill Hader’s answer is yes...
View ArticleThe Kitchen review – vindicating and explosive
“They can only stop We, if We see We as I” is the mantra that rings out over The Kitchen, the last standing social housing estate in a dystopian near-future London. The voice belongs to pirate radio...
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Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares: ‘Gentrification is hard to dramatise’
Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares make their feature film debut with The Kitchen, a dystopian drama that follows Izi (Kane Robinson) whose focus is on getting out of the Kitchen, the last surviving...
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