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Film, music, TV and culture writer and broadcaster covering international film festivals around the world and conducting interviews with actors, directors, musicians and celebrities. Current outlets include Sight & Sound, BFI, The List, SciFiNow, Vice, BBC Radio Scotland.
The James Bond movies had never held much appeal for me before 2020. I'd seen three or four in the past and been entertained but never really enthralled. Stuck in the house in those early days of lockdown one, in dire need of both escapism and a project, I decided to watch all 24.
Gregg Araki movies come peppered with beautiful people, bold fashion statements, tongue-in-cheek humour and overt pop culture references. Yet behind it all there is a strong personal and political conviction, as he responds to homophobia or confronts backward attitudes. His radical films speak to the outsider spirit, rejecting heterosexuality as the norm.
'I'm writing a novel right now called Liarmouth, about a woman who steals suitcases in airports,' reveals legendary cult filmmaker and trouble maker John Waters as we sit at the Hotel Belvedere in Locarno, Switzerland. 'I can't tell you any more than that.' Waters is at the 72nd Locarno Film...
After the resounding success of their stirring LGBTQ+ anthem 'Standing in the Way of Control', Gossip were given the chance to work with legendary producer Rick Rubin on their follow-up album Music for Men in 2009. The band split in 2016, but have now reunited for a UK and European tour to...
"Only kids could've pulled this off - thank God for teenagers and teenage mania!" exclaims Sandi Tan. In 1992, as an ambitious teenager herself, Tan came up with the idea of making a road trip movie across Singapore - a country where it takes about 40 minutes to drive from one side to the other.
Up until the late 1960s, yurei (ghost) films were released in the summer in Japan to tie in with traditional Buddhist Obon celebrations, or the Festival of Spirits. Religion, literature, military history, folklore, kabuki theatre and oral storytelling are all hugely influential on the Japanese ghost movie, as is the belief in animism, the idea that literally everything on earth possesses a spiritual essence.
Beanie Feldstein made a huge impression in Greta Gerwig's Oscar nominated solo debut feature Lady Bird in a supporting role as the titular character's endearing best friend. Now she takes the lead alongside Kaitlyn Dever in Booksmart, a vibrantly energetic high school comedy by actress turned...
It's a chilly January afternoon and, in a suite in a hotel in Soho, central London, the Queen & Slim press junket is in full swing. All day Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith, the film 's two stars, have been pulled into different rooms for separate press engagements.
"I started to look at Dakar as a ghost city. Most of the boys I was talking to were so under the influence of wanting so badly to disappear from here and be in Spain that they were almost not here anymore".
The trailblazing hip-hop group say that their movie is "in the making."