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'I'm Still Here': Fernanda Torres Shines As A Symbol Of Feminine Resilience
Review of 'I'm Still Here', winner of Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards
Lara Walsh
Mar 83 min read


Artificial Health, Simulated Wellness: Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’
A review of Netflix's new limited series 'Apple Cider Vinegar'
Karan Nimsons
Feb 273 min read


‘I’m Not Here’ at the London Short Film Festival: The Politics Of ‘Shop Girls’ And The Service Industry:
'I'm Not Here' (Carol Morley, 1994); Image courtesy of the BFI LSFF 2025. Halcyon Days: Radical Short Films of the 1990s was the first...
Roxy-Moon Dahal Hodson
Feb 124 min read


‘A Real Pain’ Review: Tourism, Trains, And Trauma
Image by ClickerHappy via Pixabay Jesse Eisenberg’s newest venture, A Real Pain , begins as it ends; in an airport. Amidst the chaos of...
Lara Walsh
Feb 104 min read


Magnificent, Miniature, More Than Theatre: Reviewing 'Five Lines' at the Barbican
★★★★ | Five Lines  is a celebration of technical craftsmanship, dissolving concepts of what most believe to be a typical ‘theatre’...
Roxy-Moon Dahal Hodson
Feb 33 min read


The Fabric of Film - Growing Out Of Old Clothes: Molly Gunn’s Wardrobe In Uptown Girls
Uptown Girls epitomises what fashion can mean to lost girls. Maaya Karuppiah discusses the 2003 cult classic.
Maaya Karuppiah
Feb 25 min read


'Passing', Fanon, And The Screen
Image by Adolph B. Rice Studio via Flickr In 1952, Martiniquan theorist Frantz Fanon published the pioneering Black Skin, White Masks ,...
Valeria Berghinz
Jan 255 min read


The Fabric of Film - Does The World Really Get Better When We Shop? Fashion As A Vice In Confessions Of A Shopaholic.
Confessions of a Shopaholic is a reminder of what fashion should mean; beautiful things mean nothing if the price is our own essence.
Maaya Karuppiah
Jan 194 min read


The Fabric Of Film - Escapism Through Fashion In Ai Yazawa’s 'Paradise Kiss'
Hedonistic Runaways or Soul Searchers? Maaya Karuppiah on escapism through fashion in Ai Yazawa’s Paradise Kiss.
Maaya Karuppiah
Jan 54 min read


Opening Scenes: In Conversation with Against The Grain Visuals, Maker of ‘Blackstar, Until The End’
'Blackstar, Until The End' (Against The Grain Visuals, 2024) I sat down with Filmmaker Joseph White, or Against The Grain Visuals, to...
Laura Mihaela Cretu
Dec 19, 20248 min read
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