i am excited to watch it but if you’re adapting an ancient greek epic for the screen you cannot be this afraid of men’s thighs

In a year that made us feel like we were standing by, dumbstruck, as the world fell apart, I wrote about the 2025 movies that bore witness to all that was taken from us www.avclub.com/2025-cinemat...

“The prison demands that we be alive on their terms – but now it’s on our terms, and we have the power that they hold over us in our hands, in our bodies and in our empty stomachs. I wish I could convey how much energy resistance brings you.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib have been on hunger strike for 46 days. They are at serious risk of death. They are in prison because the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide. The Home Secretary must intervene.

“Trying to hold yourself together when you’re falling apart all over the place is extraordinarily weird, and most of the time, I feel like I’m about to topple over or faint. My mother says this feeling only lasts for 4 days.” Eve Babitz’s journals. buff.ly/B9OTKrO

Shot - chaser - finisher The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork. Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes. Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans. A recipe for utter chaos.

Letterboxd Video Store. Coming early December 2025. 👀 More info: boxd.it/2OU

A new photo portfolio by Stephanie Keith captures the daily routine at 26 Federal Plaza: where masked ICE agents haunt the hallways — and arrest and hustle away immigrants as they exit courtrooms.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

jamaica has never been hit by a category 5 hurricane in recorded history and someone is still going to argue that climate change is a hoax

josh o’connor cradling art: a triptych

lining up a Hamnet/Die, My Love double bill and calling it the Women Abandoned By Their Husbands evening

On shelves now! Our print ode to one of 2025’s best films: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. But it you’re not sold on cover alone, let’s take a little look at the innards…

Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia makes absurd mockery of the American psyche, with an outstanding performance from Jesse Plemons. #Bugonia #YorgosLanthimos #EmmaStone #JessePlemons www.pastemagazine.com/movies/bugon...

loved Bugonia, even if the ending did make me groan a bit www.pastemagazine.com/movies/bugon...

gonna keep bumping my profile of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, of which I am very proud, would love if you read, at @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/jafa...

a lil somethin to take the edge off 😮‍💨

Our friends at Cinema For Gaza have announced their next fundraiser for Palestine, and it's a corker... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

From Ground Zero is playing in cinemas this weekend. In an ideal world, this film wouldn’t have to exist. But it does, so I highly recommend you seek it out. my review for Little White Lies here: lwlies.com/reviews/stor...

And racial disparity tbqh

got into the LFF site at 10am on the dot and bought tickets for three people over the span of an hour. this is the closest I’ll ever get to feeling like Don Corleone

today is the 4th anniversary of launching my baby, blackfilmarchive.com 🫂 in celebration of this anniversary, i answer my most asked questions like “what is up with all the trauma in black film?” and “should sex be on screen?”

The more our culture doubles down on the idea that arts criticism is unnecessary (and critics are the enemy), the stupider and less curious our world will become… Devastating times.

I am fucking begging people to go to this website and do what it says and get rid of the AI summaries tenbluelinks.org

The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason Okundaye

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992)

Anne Rice Immortal Universe portraits ok yay!! #InterviewWithTheVampire and #Talamasca panels start soon 🫶 #SDCC #SDCC2025 #iwtv www.tvinsider.com/gallery/inte...

they’re calling it a Solvej Balle summer

I love Clueless (1995) and how much it takes teenage girls seriously. wrote about it for Polyester 🎀: www.polyesterzine.com/features/cel...

i have seen tourists eating sad fish & chips in the centre of London today so i want to give some advice on how to eat good fish & chips if you’re ever visiting the UK a) never ever in the centre of a big city. it will never be good.

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Trust the Telegraph are being brought in for questioning?

Avon & Somerset police tasered its own race relations advisor, harassing him twice. The officer was cleared. You’d think they’d focus on their own racism www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

My statement on the government's absurd and authoritarian proposal to proscribe Palestine Action.

whoever said the 28 Days Later films remind them of a long gone era of arts funding in Britain was very correct

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody.

Wonderful news! The fight back begins! Abortion is not a crime and we are human beings not incubators 🥳 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Finally!

dick turpin from horrible histories is on taskmaster doing things that should never be broadcast on national television

why is Will Smith rapping in King’s Cross rn lmao

And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Ten! Submissions will be open from JUNE 1st - JUNE 14th. We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.

They set fire to a hotel where refugees were forced to live, attacked mosques and homes, stopped people driving into an area if they weren’t white. “grievances” remember violent racism is always our fault

all the best people are born in May. for example, me (it’s my birthday)

It’s time these laws were resigned to the past with witch hunting and Magdalene laundries. They will be a dark part of our history one day.

One of the very important points here is that we were using these toilets for decades before it suddenly was artificially made into an issue. Hell day to day it still isn't an issue for the majority of us despite what the bigots want the public to think.

hope everyone is having a whamtastic week x

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but what if... both??