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Skywalkers: A Love Story

“We’re telling a love story,” so the self-designated "rooftopper" Angela Nikolau declares of the social media feed shared…

By Thomas Messner
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Girls Will Be Girls

There’s a certain gloom that underscores Girls Will Be Girls, Shuchi Talati’s debut feature-length drama. The shadows that…

By Antonia Georgiou
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Sasquatch Sunset

To cinema purists who look at the credited cast before going to see a film but not the…

By Selina Sondermann
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Dìdi

The late 2000s is one of the most culturally driven years of the modern era, a defining point…

By Mae Trumata
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Your Monster

Droll showbiz comedy? Medical scare melodrama? Haunted house horror? The early goings-on in Caroline Lindy’s feature debut feel…

By Thomas Messner
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Never Look Away

“For better or worse, war is an amazing feeling,” CNN correspondent Stefano Kotsonis utters at the start of…

By Antonia Georgiou
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I Saw the TV Glow

As steeped irony it may be, few things feel more inherently uncinematic than the act of watching films…

By Thomas Messner
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Handling the Undead

A woman dies on the operating table, only to abruptly stir. A man’s graveside visitation is disturbed by the…

By Thomas Messner
Live music

Mighty Hoopla 2024: Day Two

Mighty Hoopla, Brixton’s celebration of LGBTQ+ music and culture, is a place where anything goes and everyone is…

By Katherine Parry