Bums on seats: the London Film Festival returns
This autumn, cracking premieres, brilliant programming and top-notch talent are back in town.
This autumn, cracking premieres, brilliant programming and top-notch talent are back in town.
There have been sold-out screenings across Europe and the States and there's a full-blown trilogy in the works. The film’s directors Rebekah Sherman-Myntti and KJ Rothweiler tell us how they pursued their dreams on a shoestring budget.
From Netflix’s Heartstopper to Conversation With Friends, 2022’s pop culture is eschewing sex for moments of tenderness and heartfelt emotion. Brace yourself for face touching and gentle kisses.
Supernatural cinema has become a spellbinding export for Thailand over the years. Starring Tilda Swinton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria is the latest eerie tale to land on our screens, continuing a cinematic tradition that goes back decades.
The musical mastermind behind 2019’s Cuz I Love You hints at a new album in collaboration with the super producer and squashes that bizarre rumour, all in a day’s work.
With performances from Arlo Parks, Dua Lipa and Olivia Rodrigo, it even had a (currently bleary–eyed) TJ Sidhu forgiving the one-too-many video performances...
Netflix’s new mindbending psychological drama stars Uma Thurman in her best role since Nymphomaniac.
It’s no secret that Miami Beach is queer as folk. Aside from legendary gay bar Twist, Gianni Versace’s mansion and the year-round display of speedo-clad himbos, this month the city is home to many new queer art exhibitions.
Ickbait: “I can’t see a man tuck into a turkey dinosaur and still fancy him,” says Beth Ashley.
Lurrrrv is in the air... and you’d better buy your other half a decent pressie in time for Monday. Lucky for you, we’re on hand.
Harvesting mushrooms requires only a little more patience than taking to TikTok or baking banana bread. Could psilocybin be effective in guiding us through to a better place? Those in the know weigh in.
A viable male birth control exists. One that has already undergone years of successful human trials, with vastly fewer reported side effects than the pill. So why don’t you know about it?
Leatherings on the hard shoulder. Brawls on petrol station forecourts. From where Clive Martin is sitting, Britain is
entering an age of great aggravation – recorded on cameraphones and uploaded for a new kind of gladiatorial thrill. Should we be scared?
Chef and photographer Alex Paganelli uses food to breathe life into campaigns for the likes of Skims and Bottega Veneta, but that’s only a small facet of his growing creative food empire.
Jack Grealish’s other sporting life: as a teenager, he played Gaelic football for an historic Irish sports club in the Midlands. We went there to meet the coaches who remember the “natural”, and the kids who aspire to be him – even the ones from the Blue side of Birmingham. Well, some of them.
The new artist blends her own emotive material with tracks by Overmono, Eartheater and Joy Orbison.
London Film Festival: the Londoner is starring in the other must-watch TV drama of the season (the other being Succession) (you knew that).