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Review: Meet Me in the Bathroom

Meet Me in the Bathroom is a documentary on the whirlwind blink-and-you’ll -miss-it New York City rock scene circa y2k. In Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s adaptation of Lizzy Goodman’s book of the same name, the film presents a whistle-stop tour of all the New York favourites from The Strokes to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs […]

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Culture Theatre

Shakespeare Society’s Masquerade Ball

At the heart of many good nights out is drinking and dancing, but the trick is to look stylish while doing so. There is a delicate balance between external refinement and internal intoxication, and the patrons of the Shakespeare Society’s Masquerade Ball pulled it off marvellously! With five hundred tickets sold, the Caves on Cowgate’s […]

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Lifestyle

Deconstructing the Inaccessibility of the Fashion Week Runway

At the end of every annual New York Fashion Week, us idle viewers are inevitably bombarded with a social media feed full of outlandish and unconventional interpretations of what we know fashion to be. And so, when we end up with confused eyes staring at a model contorted in twisted neon clothing, we can be […]

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TV

Succession Series 3

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In the explosive final moments of Succession’s second series, Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) accused his billionaire CEO father Logan (Brian Cox) of complicity in numerous sexual abuse cover-ups within his media corporation, Waystar Royco. For two years, fans have waited to see how this act of insurrection would shake out amongst the Roys—an […]

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Does the Friends reunion mark the rise of ‘uncancelled’ culture?

Rating – ⭐ Who needs enemies when you have Friends like these? The Aniston and Schwimmer ‘real life’ love story mirroring the fictional storyline appeared a decoy for dealing with any real issues, proving unaccountability as the true hallmark of the 90s show. Goodbye, old Friends – It’s been great avenging the past and demanding accountability. A former […]

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TV

Grand Army

Content Warning: Sexual assault, anti-blackness. Watching Grand Army’s nine-episode first season was easy. Maybe too easy, with each hour long episode rapidly collapsing together as the dreaded ‘next episode’ button proved irresistible. This is partly due to my weak will, but mainly because Grand Army is actually pretty good. The new drama, set at the […]

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The Kitchen

Based on its story, The Kitchen fits perfectly into the feminist narrative. Three housewives of the 1970s, played by Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss, face a hard financial situation when their husbands, who made their livelihood by working for the Irish mafia, are being sent to jail. The film presents a series of […]

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine

To anyone who has not watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I pity you. One of my favourite comedy series of all time, this is a show that puts a smile on my face on even the glummest of days. It is a sitcom set in a police precinct in Brooklyn where not all that much policing goes […]