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Photo Courtesy of Universal Music Group Lily Lyons has always lived between places. As a teenager, she spent eight-hour drives shuttling between London and Somerset, tracing the stretch of motorway. Those journeys became her earliest classrooms. In the backseat, headphones on, she absorbed the softness of Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake, Nora Jones, and Joni Mitchell, finding in their tenderness a version of herself that didn’t yet have space in her day-to-day world. Since r

Nostalgia is a deeply human experience. But what happens when we romanticise the past to the point of reinventing it? In the film A Pale View of Hills, Kei Ishikawa invites the audience into the quiet world of Etsuko, a Japanese woman in England, whose bandages begin to unwrap as her youngest daughter, Niki, a young writer, itches to investigate her mother’s uncovered past.

Rachel Sennott’s ‘I Love LA’ was caught in a whirlwind of cast discourse even before it was released.

Photo by aj_aaaab on Unsplash A relative of mine recently said to me: “Films aren’t the same anymore, I don’t want to see anything at the cinema nowadays.” She worked in the film industry for 50 years. I had just finished asking her about her career and she reflected fondly, but to see her disappointment at what was once her scene saddened me. I thought back to the last time we had been to the cinema together. We saw The Naked Gun (2025), a legacy sequel to the original fra

Image by Pearl Murphy courtesy of French Press PR The Grace, long one of my favourite London venues, carried a familiar sense of anticipation that only an intimate venue of its kind can summon, where every note and movement is entirely magnified by proximity. Located in Islington, the iconic music venue has been celebrated for hosting the city’s greatest emerging talents as they find their footing; its past guests only underline the venue’s well-deserved reputation, with arti

Photo by Johan Persson Just in time for the stormy change in London’s weather, a rain-soaked take on Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea began its run at the Bridge Theatre on the 10 th of September. Alicia Vikander stars as Ellida, with Andrew Lincoln as Doctor Edvard Wangel – a married couple caught in the undertow of their pasts in writer and director Simon Stone’s reimagining of the classic. A true family drama, this production sharpens the domestic tragedy through mode

In our first Annotations column, Nikita David explores the evolving style and image of 'Sex and the City's' Charlotte York.

The ’70s, the ’90s, Y2K, all reborn through the lens of a generation that never lived them, yet they are attached to this idealised era. But beneath the sequins and nostalgia lies something deeper:

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania, 2025); Image courtesy of London Palestine Film Festival When the world around you is burning and you feel all alone, what do you have left? What sustenance keeps you going? What cannot be taken from you? Your voice. Your voice is the most powerful tool you have when you are the voiceless figure, spoken for by those who do not know you. The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) acts as this protest, a protest against letting the voices of P

A good film can make you feel and ponder endlessly; this one made me feel absolutely nothing, and I left the theatre confused and head empty.