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    Daisy Gazzard

    Review: Bastille @ The Brook, 13/02/22

    Bastille are back with their series of intimate gigs to promote their fourth album, Give Me The Future, which, after releasing on 4 February 2022, is now at number 1. The gig had around 500 people attending and having been to several ‘intimate gigs’ before including one of Bastille’s, this genuinely felt friendly, intimate and […]

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    Amrit Manku

    Preview: Pale Waves & Hot Milk at O2 Academy, Bournemouth, 16/02/2022

    One of the UK’s most famous pop-indie bands from Manchester, will be bringing their big energy to headline the O2 Academy arena at Bournemouth on the 16th of February 2022. Pale Waves will be performing their incredible second album Who Am I? with special guest, emo-pop band Hot Milk. Pale Waves’ unique goth style mixed with […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Candyman (2021)

    The original Candyman, a cult favourite based upon a short story by Clive Barker and directed by Bernard Rose, is a personal favourite and remains a landmark horror film for its racial politics (up there with Night of the Living Dead and The People Under the Stairs, the latter of which remains unsung but does […]

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    Becky Davies

    Fearless: Why Taylor Swift’s Re-recordings Matter

    Becky Davies explains the importance of Taylor Swift’s fearless reclamation of her own music.

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    Louis Altmann

    In Defence of: The Eastrail 177 Trilogy

    An off-the-radar trilogy that started strong and… ended strong? Louis Altmann breaks down M Night Shymalan’s stealth project.

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    Elizabeth Sorrell

    “What are the boxes we are drawing ourselves into?”: In Conversation with ‘The Surrogate’s’ Jeremy Hersh and Jasmine Batchelor

    When I imagine moving to New York, I – like Jeremy Hersh – would imagine a “progressive paradise”, only to be disappointed by the fact that flawed and imperfect people live there too. We often find ourselves at a crossroads between simply appearing progressive and open-minded and following that attitude through in morally complex situations. […]

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    Connie Seamer

    Nostalgic News: Charli XCX’s ‘Vroom Vroom’ was released 5 years ago

    Connie Seamer celebrates the EP that pushed Charli XCX onto a new experimental stage of her career.

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    Theo Smith

    Review: Music – Disastrously Out-Of-Tune Autism Musical-Drama

    Theo Smith reviews Sia’s controversial musical-drama about an autistic teenage girl.

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    Elizabeth Sorrell

    My Sweet Orange Tree: ‘Oliver Twist in the Streets of Urban Brazil’

    Elizabeth Sorrell tells us about the tragic tale of My Sweet Orange Tree that was originally written in Portuguese.

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    Olivia Dellar

    “Charmingly Funny and Remarkably Moving” – A Review of Tom Allen’s No Shame

    Classic Culture Olivia Dellar introduces you to your brand new favourite comic.

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    Olivia Dellar

    John Boyega: Actor, Producer, Activist and Hero

    Olivia Dellar looks back on the career of the Peckham-born actor from Moses to Finn

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    Theo Smith

    LFF: ‘We should all just be who we are, and let’s knock the walls and barriers that restrict us!’ – An Interview with director Peter Murimi

    Film editor Theo Smith, interviews director Peter Murimi about his debut film which is playing at the London Film Festival.

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    Sam Pegg

    Review: I’m Thinking of Ending Things

    When sitting down to watch Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, it’s not immediately clear what the film is about, or even how to approach it as a viewer. On the one hand, it’s an existential foray into ‘what ifs’ and missed opportunities, contrasting “what could have been” against “what has been”, in a […]

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    Theo Smith

    This Month in Film: September 2020

    Your film editors guide you through their film picks for September.