Beauty’s Background
Toni Bestard’s short film Background, broadcasted on Arte this month, radiates a poetic understanding of cinema. It is a meta-narrative,…
BIIG PIIG: Ham-mer Time ★★★★
Jess Smyth (Biig Piig) released her newest EP, No Place For Patience, Vol. 3, on 1 November, and continues to…
Revisiting The Little Mermaid— 30 Years Afloat
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, a coming-of-age story loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy…
Monos – Monos Goes Bananas ★★★★★
Monos deserves all the praise it’s received. This is a film with stunning cinematography, riveting acting, and captivating themes. Directed…
On being Black and Bipolar: A conversation between Chris and Saleisha
The numbers don’t lie: Black women are more likely to be diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder than any other demographic in…
Get reading this reading week
Reading week is fabulous. University mandated time off. I for one will be spending the week doing just that –…
Pockets of Community: Enron Taster
A FLURRY OF shouting roiled in a classroom at 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields one school night. It was a hive…
What’s on in November? We’ve got your back!
What’s on in November? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! The run-up to Christmas is always an awkward one. But…
Rafiki – Love in a hopeless place ★★★
“[You mean] the whole church was watching me and what I was doing?” “Yes.” This exchange from Rafiki encompasses the…
Ghost Stories – A Halloween Treat ★★★★★
To demonstrate the brilliance of this show: after I saw it, I couldn’t sleep until 3 am. When I felt…
