Culture Writing
(film, tv, music, food and anything else that makes us tick)
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Everyone is Beautiful and No One Is Hungry
18/07/2026
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Welcome to The Freak Show
11/05/2026
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What’s all the drama with The Drama?
09/04/2026
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Crush Is A Somali-British Rom-Com That Tackles More Than Young Love
04/02/2026
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To cry or not to cry? With Chloe Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’, that really is the question
20/01/2026
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In search of ‘slow tech’
08/01/2026
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How 2025 Killed Body Positivity
11/12/2025
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On belonging and ‘Brooklyn’ (2015)
24/11/2025
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Susan Wokoma on Her Short Film ‘Dark Skin Bruises Differently'
23/10/2025
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After the Hunt, The Social Network and the thorny politics of the campus drama
17/10/2025
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We need more Black love stories on screen – and Love, Brooklyn is a perfect example of why
13/10/2025
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What is the future for Palestinian cinema?
16/09/2025
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Notes from a weekend of Horror
21/08/2025
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How Queen Latifah helped me fall in love with fashion—and myself
28/07/2025
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What Final Destination has taught me about grief
10/06/2025
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Why have so few films been made by Black women?
25/04/2025
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Severance: Choosing the Other
21/03/2025
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The tradwife politics of Mickey-17
20/03/2015
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Due Saleh is Writing R&B For the Apocalypse and Everyone's Invited
03/03/2025
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Nosferatu, Babygirl and the discourses of female desire
21/01/2025
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50 Questions With Lolly Adefope
22/10/2024
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Why are we obsessed with watching shows about work?
02/10/2024
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Blockout 2024: what should we realistically expect from celebrity activism?
22/05/2024
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Humanity erased: are veneers ruining Hollywood?
04/04/2024
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Kevin Morosky: ‘Everything is based on human connection’
12/03/2024
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Is the romcom dead?
14/02/2024
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Veiled Threat: how Islamophobia and misogyny harm Muslim women
25/01/2024
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What’s behind our obsessive surveillance of celebrities?
15/01/2024
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How May December star Charles Melton went from Riverdale to the real deal
20/12/2023
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2023: the year culture reached peak nostalgia
15/12/2023
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Come on, Barbie, Let's go party
25/07/2023
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A Love Letter to ‘Love Jones’
22/05/2023
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Shiv Roy is not the most evil character on Succession
18/05/2023
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Sam Levinson is not an auteur, he’s a spoilt nepo baby
02/03/2023
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You're Not Supposed To Want This
23/02/2023
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She Said: why it’s too soon for a #MeToo movie
28/11/2022
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Don’t Worry Darling Is Peak White Feminism (As Expected)
28/09/2022
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Black women are finally getting three-dimensional TV roles
15/09/2022
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Jordan Peele’s Nope and the Spectacle of Social Media
19/09/2022
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Hustlers: Curious Source Material
30/07/2022
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Euphoria: An Ode To Mediocrity
19/02/2022
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You’re right to be outraged by Netflix’s Cuties, but ‘cancelling’ it won’t help
11/09/2020
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Recommending Black Trauma Films Isn't the Anti-Racist Move You Think It Is
07/07/2020
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HOW 'RATATOUILLE' TOOK OVER TIKTOK
26/02/2020
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Why @EmoBlackThot's Identity Reveal Hurt Black Women So Much
16/10/2019
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Let's Talk About What the Hell Happens in Where Hands Touch
04/01/2019