Laila Ghaffar traces how The Round Lake collapses dystopian fiction into present reality, exposing the colonial and political structures driving water scarcity in Pakistan.

Freddie Smith explores how both films reveal the hidden violence and scale of global industry, reshaping how we perceive time, labour and the exploitation of the sea.

La Sape is a Congolese sartorial movement and subculture rooted in the reclamation of agency, power and identity. 

It is both a manifestation and influence of Black Dandyism, the theme of the 2025 Met Gala. 

Exploring Satire and the 2019 Mister America, underscoring its importance but questioning its lack of impact. 

How the work of Claudia Jones helps explain the lack of black recognition in country music.

Exploring how Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry approaches men's mental health.

Exploring the centrality of food and importance of community through Juzo Itami’s Tampopo. 

This article explores Joyland, a film about a young man who falls in love with a trans woman and navigates the ambiguity of his masculine identity.

Joseph Yorke-Wescott explores the different ways in which black struggle has been narrativised through time, highlighting how the idea of the Black Revolutionary ultimately relies on eventual death.

A conversation with the West London raised DJ and radio host. She discusses being a South Asian woman in her field, her unexpected journey into coding, and more !

Henry Kidney explores Spike Jonze’s Her, relating growing loneliness to the ascendency of hyper-individualism.

John Coltrane is one of the most revered jazz musicians of all time, but many do not fully recognise the role of his wife Alice. Dillon Gohil explores their relationship and how their Eastern philosophy helped popularise Spiritual Jazz.

Cyberpunk is dead and we have killed it, argues Owen Dawes. From cyborg consumers to stem cell immortality, science fiction has returned with a vengeance.. but big capital holds the keys.

Henry Kidney analyses British educational inequality using Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. He contrasts it with Finland's education system, which is consistently ranked as the best globally.

Exploring Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland’s One Nation project, drawing parallels to the work of Marina Abramovic & Ulay in creating an ego-less identity underpinned by trust.

Exploring the philosophy of Anthony Bourdain.

Exploring the revolutionary potential of cinema through the 1974 Moroccan docu-fiction.

Delving into the legacy and importance of Mike Skinner’s acclaimed concept album classic.

Exploring contested narratives of fetishisation, sexualisation, and violence in Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.

Dillon Gohil explores the lost-then-found indie film starring the controversial Vincent Gallo.