Simeon Barclay on exclusion, Black mythology and Britain’s past
The artist opened his latest exhibition, England’s Lost Camelot, last weekend. After labouring on the artworks through both lockdown and nerves, he’s ready to show the world how he’s rewritten (sorry, repainted) the country’s history. Simeon Barclay might have already taken over
Five new film and TV shows to love this week
Screen Time: Feet up. Telly on. From a Spice Girls doc to Bolu Babalola’s Big Age, here are the best TV and film morsels to snack on from 10th September onwards. Did it hurt? When you saw those first leaves turn amber and fall to the ground? Autumn is here, you lot, whether you like […]
Keanu Reeves returns to sci-fi in The Matrix Resurrections
Trailer of the Week: Watch Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski reinvent the sci-fi blockbuster all over again. Bullet time, wooh! What is it? Official Trailer 1 for The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth film in The Matrix trilogy-I-mean-tetralogy, entering the real world 22 ye
This new photo book captures lost time over the past year
Photographer Jermaine Francis’s Rhythms of the Metroplex explores life without proximity and how time really can be of the essence. Excerpt from Rhythms of the Metroplex In many ways, this book is about time and its intrinsic relationship to photography, but it is also about the poetic mystery of
Highlife’s DJ Cuppy: “We’re Africans, we’re British and we’re here”“
Channel 4’s new reality show Highlife focuses on the lives of ambitious young Black West Africans living in London. Meet the 28-year-old THE FACE is calling the show’s break-out star. It’s quite clear that as a nation, we are – still – completely obsessed with Reality TV. Love Island?
Five Sopranos fan accounts to follow right now
From razor-sharp memes about Kanye’s Donda and Tony Soprano crying to SOPHIE, here’s some seriously fun stuff to tide you over until The Many Saints of Newark comes out on 22nd September. Let’s face it, there’s never a bad time to re-watch The Sopranos, otherwise known as one of
Spoons: the most exciting Indonesian supper club in London
In 2019, Rahel Stephanie started Spoons as a means to share delicious food with friends. Now, she’s bringing her local dishes to the masses and edging closer to her roots in the process. In late 2019, before the pandemic hit British shores, Rahel Stephanie decided to start an Indonesian supper clu
The legend of Michael Gandolfini
With prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark about to hit cinemas, Michael Gandolfini talks stepping into the role that his late father, James, made so famous: that of Tony Soprano, the complex mob boss whose legacy has endured as one of TV’s greatest ever characters. Taken from the new print issu
Jack O’Connell strips it all back
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack get your kit off! The Derby Lad plays a stellar polar explorer in intense BBC Arctic thriller The North Water. Eight years ago, not long after he turned 23, Jack O’Connell was on the other side of the world, filming the role of a lifetime under the directio
Prepare For Drake's "Way 2 Sexy" Video To Be Memed Into Oblivion
Ever since Drake’s “Hotline Bling” video became the source for endless GIFs and memes, he’s gone out of his way to provide viewers with such source material in subsequent videos in the hopes of going viral again. The latest instance of this is the new clip for “Way 2 Se