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The Vile (Majid Al Ansari, 2025); Image courtesy of BFI London Film Festival 2025 Emirati director Majid Al Ansari’s latest feature, The Vile (2025), is a masterclass in bringing the modern Gothic to your doorstep. When Amani, a loving wife and mother, finds herself playing second fiddle to the new (and younger) bride her husband ushers in without telling her, her life begins to unravel from the inside out, outside in. The hour and a half that follows narrates the lives of A

Grief plagues everyone differently; the forlorn objects left behind are both a comfort and a cruel reminder of a marked absence. 

I think about riding roller coasters with my dad almost every day. It has made me consider a lot of the things I take for granted.

Brothers and Sisters first aired in September 2006, boasting a total of 109 episodes over five seasons by its end date in May 2011. The...

Drawing by Marine Pellissier There is an unsaid beauty in the backseat minivan glance shared between my brother and I when our parents...

Drawing by Ravie Tofolo The other day, my friend sent me a picture of a lily she saw while walking past a florist’s shop. She thought it...

Drawing by Diana Vorona I saw, on the tube, a girl scratching the itch from her Burberry scarf at the nape of her neck and I thought to...

Set in the Barbican’s Pit, viewers were immersed into an emotional and sensory experience centred around the Black femme experience,...

Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta is originally an autobiographical novel by Aglaja Veteranyi, turned into a one-woman adaption by...