Do queer roles really need to be played by queer actors?
It’s a Hollywood cliche that, for a straight male actor, playing a gay role is a shortcut to an Oscar (alongside starring in a film about t...Read More
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Showing posts with label James Greig. Show all posts
Jonathan Glazer speaks out on Gaza during Oscar speech
During his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards last night, The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer spoke out against the ongo...Read More
What’s going on with Julian Assange? Everything you need to know
Today, hundreds of people gathered outside the Royal Court of Justice, London, to show support for Julian Assange . After a long legal proc...Read More
Ayo Edebiri drops out of Marvel film, rescuing cinema and saving us all
The slow death of the Marvel cinematic universe is the only positive development happening in the world right now, arguably even within our...Read More
Barbie fans need to shut up
Before anyone tries to question my impeccable feminist credentials, let me make one thing clear: I quite liked Barbie . I also think Greta...Read More
Can AI finally help me to get some rizz? An investigation
Dating in the modern age can be a soul-crushing experience: the digital conversations that fizzle out despite our best efforts to revive t...Read More
Why are the Safdie brothers breaking up?
Like Abel and Cain and Noel and Liam Gallagher before them, the Safdie brothers are breaking up. But they won’t be bashing each other’s hea...Read More
Kristen Stewart’s gay little mullet returns in Loves Lies Bleeding trailer
For years, people have been clamouring for the return of the erotic thriller and the gods of cinema have finally answered our prayers (desp...Read More
6 takeaways from Ziwe’s divisive showdown with George Santos
Ziwe’s head-to-head with George Santos – which was released on YouTube last night – wasn’t really the “bombshell interview” promised by the...Read More
The best novels of 2023
There’s been a flood of great fiction over the last 12 months. Here, we share some of our highlights. read more raquo; View Gallery (0 ...Read More
No, young people are not stanning Osama Bin Laden
According to the media, young people on TikTok have a new celebrity favie: Osama Bin Laden, whose ‘Letter to America ‘ allegedly went vira...Read More
Suella Braverman’s Rwanda plan has been defeated... for now
In what is a major defeat for the Tories, the government’s controversial plan to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda has been ruled unlawf...Read More
‘It’s evil’: Björk declares war on open-pen salmon farming in Iceland
As a result of climate change , overfishing and the acidification of the ocean, the North Atlantic salmon is facing extinction. Open-pen fa...Read More
Environmental activists stage dramatic protest at Shell’s annual meeting
Activists from Extinction Rebellion and Fossil Free London staged a protest at the fossil Shell’s annual general meeting (AGM), which took...Read More
Enough is Enough: Zarah Sultana on tackling the cost-of-living crisis
Yesterday, social media was set ablaze by the launch of Enough is Enough , a new left-wing movement dedicated to fighting every facet of th...Read More
London’s Horniman Museum is returning 72 looted artefacts to Nigeria
The Horniman, a museum in south-east London, has agreed to return 72 cultural artefacts to Nigeria. The items in question had been loote...Read More
Megan Thee Stallion will star in a new A24 musical comedy
Megan Thee Stallion is set to take on her first-ever film role, starring in A24’s upcoming “musical comedy” Fucking Identical Twins . Th...Read More
‘It’s cultural genocide’: the dark truth about GRT life in the UK
Comedian Jimmy Carr faced a backlash last week when footage went viral of him joking that “nobody talks about the positives” of the Holocau...Read More
Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
Words have always changed meaning, and the internet has only accelerated this process. In the last few weeks, there have been some striking...Read More
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