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unreliable narrator • vampire enthusiast • ✍🏽: Paste, AV Club, Little White Lies, Curzon, Polyester, gal-dem etc • 💌 nadira.m.begum@gmail.com

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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.
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Letterboxd Video Store. Coming early December 2025. 👀

More info: boxd.it/2OU
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
Portfolio: The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza
Every day in downtown Manhattan immigrants arriving for routine hearings are targeted by ICE agents and taken from their families.
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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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."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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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
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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josh o’connor cradling art: a triptych
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
lining up a Hamnet/Die, My Love double bill and calling it the Women Abandoned By Their Husbands evening
October 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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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…
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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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...
Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia Makes Absurd Mockery of the American Psyche
Emma Stone and especially Jesse Plemons lift the corporate and conspiracy satire of Bugonia to enjoyably frenzied heights.
www.pastemagazine.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
loved Bugonia, even if the ending did make me groan a bit www.pastemagazine.com/movies/bugon...
Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia Makes Absurd Mockery of the American Psyche
Emma Stone and especially Jesse Plemons lift the corporate and conspiracy satire of Bugonia to enjoyably frenzied heights.
www.pastemagazine.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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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...
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
a lil somethin to take the edge off 😮‍💨
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Our friends at Cinema For Gaza have announced their next fundraiser for Palestine, and it's a corker... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Ambika Mod and Daisy Ridley to star in Pride and Prejudice live reading fundraiser for Gaza
Nish Kumar, Jenna Coleman and Morfydd Clark will also feature in London event for Medical Aid for Palestinians
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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...
From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza review – a disjointed but urgent…
A collection of 22 short films by Palestinian filmmakers captures the reality of life in Gaza since Israel's renewed invasion.
lwlies.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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And racial disparity tbqh
i don't think you see the gender discrepancy in film criticism quite as glaringly as you do in annual film festival coverage
September 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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?”
Who will solve Black cinema’s marketing crisis?
… and other questions in my inbox on the 4th anniversary of Black Film Archive.
blackfilmarchive.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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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.
August 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I am fucking begging people to go to this website and do what it says and get rid of the AI summaries tenbluelinks.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason Okundaye
The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason Okundaye
We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992)
Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time
August 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
they’re calling it a Solvej Balle summer
July 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I love Clueless (1995) and how much it takes teenage girls seriously. wrote about it for Polyester 🎀: www.polyesterzine.com/features/cel...
July 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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.
July 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM