Hello, we are glad to now be live on Bluesky! Very excited to connect and keep you up to date with everything going on at the Rio 🍿

So pleased to be asked by Park Circus to curate a monthly film pick from their extensive catalog which is available for screening in the UK and with programme notes from yours truly. First choice drops soon!

❤️The Rio Cinema's Feminist Film Group & I are having a love-in for LOVE & BASKETBALL's 25th anniversary!

🏀With an intro from iconic writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood & a juicy post-screening Q&A, what's not to love?!

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People! I'm screening the eXquisite LOVE & BASKETBALL @ the Rio Cinema Dalston on SUN 27 JULY in a dreamy co-lab with the Feminist Film Programming Collective.

Come celebrate its 25th anniversary & find out why it's in my book 'I Love Romcoms & I'm A Feminist'
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Ashley Walters - who I know to be the coolest bro, like, ever - getting schooled on what emojis mean in Adolescence has really aged me.

Never have I felt so like a 'target audience' than seeing Amandaland's 40-ish single dad / former house & garage DJ who looks great in football shorts.

The opening sequence to Questlove's LADIES & GENTLEMEN 50 YEARS OF SNL is a technical, musical, heart-palpatating act from a god amongst mortals.
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SLY LIVES! Questlove salutes the genius of Sly (& the Family Stone) while asking "what is the burden of Black genius?" to those qualified to answer (oh hey, D'angelo!). Mesmerising. Provocative. Frustratingly buried on Disney+

I'll have what he's having.

"The idea that a widow could simply want connection, fun or just good sex without it being framed as either self-destructive or groundbreaking remains strangely radical". Big fan of Heale's lived observations on our new Bridget.

Got to share some hot takes on who Bridget Jones' boy really is & naturally found some dark romantic comedy in Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention. What a gem. Ta for having us @lwlies.com 💜

Biggest take away from Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy?

It's all about the women. Absolute class act.

After decades upon decades of racism, colourism & whitewashing in romcoms, RYE LANE surfaced with a breath of fresh air. Obvs it was the film I chose when asked along to the Made In England podcast. Listen up! 💖
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Enjoyed my seat in the STD area for BABYGIRL.

If what I dug most from BETTER MAN was the carnivalesque merriment & choreographed splendor of Rock DJ, I'm gonna have to cave & watch THE GREATEST SHOWMAN aren't I?

Just clocked that all the films directed by Nicole Holofcener are around the 90min mark & it's made me love her even more.