• MCU Wrap Up: Where Are We Headed Next?

    Amy Child Warning: Spoilers Ahead! Four new films were added to the MCU last year, raising the tally of the multiversal, multi-award-winning collection to a mind-blowing twenty-seven. This number could potentially be even greater, if you include Tobey Maguire’s and Andrew Garfield’s Spidermans in the mix (and after the...
  • The History Of Black Panther Breakfast Clubs

    Victoria looks back on the Black Panther Breakfast Clubs and its echoes in the UK today....
  • Challenges Still Faced By Hollywood’s Budding Black Actors In The Film Industry Today

    Jerome Gerada In recent times, Hollywood has become somewhat of a harbour for negativity, receiving relentless bouts of media-driven criticism – often in the form of hashtag-headed campaigns that sprawl from Twitter to television news in a matter of days. Perhaps it was famously convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein...
  • Films That Have Revolutionised Hollywood

    Sarah Harris Hollywood is an institution that has been around since long before my time. Therefore, as much as I like to think my film knowledge is fairly extensive, I can’t speak for the productions that revolutionised the industry when I wasn’t alive. Even narrowing down to the below...
  • Film Review: Us

    Us, Jordan Peele’s follow-up horror film to Get Out, is a remarkably intriguing and horrifying film in its own right. When the larger social implications and allegories are considered, the film forces us to reckon with our own collective failures as self-interested individuals; our tendency to disregard the troubles...
  • The politics of Ruth E. Carter’s fashion designs

    We cannot escape politics when it comes to fashion, no matter what we wear. Each garment binds us to a political statement whether we realise it or not. Fashion almost always coincides with making a political and powerful statement. For instance, in 1919, labour leader Luisa Capetillo became the...
  • The Horrors of Hollywood: The Race Gap

    Ah, Hollywood. A land of films, fast cars and movie stars. Also a land of dinosaurs apparently. The recent “Oscars so White” scandal certainly shone a light on Hollywood’s problems with representation in regard to awards contention. However, this proves to be only part of a larger issue that plagues...