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1 week ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
Alex Garland’s and Ray Mendoza’s latest film Warfare starring Will Poulter, Joseph Quinn, and many other great actors follows a dedicated platoon of Navy SEALs who embark on a highly risky mission in Ramadi, Iraq. It’s an epic film that locks you in from the get-go with phenomenal acting, superb cinematography and writing that delivers on each line. The film has gained a lot of critical acclaim since its release with a rating of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. It will likely do well during award season.
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1 week ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
Sinners premiered in U.S. theaters on April 18th, and has dominated the box office ever since. It opened with $55.8 million and followed up with $45.7 million in its second weekend, outperforming major franchise films and becoming the first R-rated horror movie in 35 years to earn an A CinemaScore. The StorySet in 1932 Mississippi, Sinners follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack Moore (both played by Michael B.
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1 week ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
Released on the 4th of April 2025, A Minecraft Movie starring Jack Black has been rated PG by the Motion Picture Association and BBFC for “violence/action, language, suggestive/rude humor, and some scary images” . While it’s crafted for younger audiences, let’s be honest kids, parents might want to be aware of certain elements that go beyond the typical blocky adventures of the game that have attracted millions of viewers.
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2 weeks ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
In this quietly arresting photographic series, Ciel Wang turns her lens toward the most intimate of subjects: the aging bodies of her grandparents, rendered with a tenderness that transcends mere documentation. What emerges is a meditation on time’s passage, where wrinkled skin and sunspots become landscapes of memory, and where the fading of the body stands in poignant contrast to the persistence of love.
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2 weeks ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
London’s spring sky is living up to the exhibition’s title—Partly Cloudy—this April, when Xianghan Wang’s latest creation is unveiled. Inside the M P Birla Millennium Art Gallery, a large contemporary space nestled within The Bhavan—London’s renowned institute of Indian art and culture—visitors wander through an atmosphere of quiet anticipation.
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3 weeks ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
At the intersection of graphic design, drawing, and the enigmatic realm of the subconscious lies Night Figures—an evocative visual art project by Trisha Kim, designed to blur the lines between conscious creation and instinctual expression. This body of work invites viewers to confront the shadows of their own minds, where fleeting shapes, faces, and forms emerge from abstract chaos, echoing the universal experience of finding meaning in the unknown.
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3 weeks ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
Yiqi Zhao is a visual artist and illustrator whose work exists in the potent space between personal myth and social critique. Navigating themes of gender, migration, and cultural identity, Zhao employs a distinct ink-based visual language that draws heavily on surrealism and symbolic subversion. Her meticulous yet emotionally raw compositions interrogate how the body, especially the female form, is shaped by external systems of power and expectation.
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3 weeks ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
Distant Depictions by Xiang Zhang presents a quiet study of distance: emotional, spatial, and cultural. Exhibited as part of the “Small Works” group show at Fox Yard Studio, the series consists of black and white photographs that linger in transitional spaces. With a background in film from the Beijing Film Academy and the London Film School, Zhang brings a cinematic sensibility to still images that resist narrative resolution, capturing scenes that feel suspended in time.
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4 weeks ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
Yide Du is an artist and curator whose practice navigates the subtle intersections of contemporary objects, human interaction, and the quiet rituals of everyday life. Since 2021, she has led YDMD Studio, working closely with a group of long-established artists. Many of them are Royal College of Art alumni with over a decade of experience. Her work is grounded in a thoughtful exploration of daily habits, gentle behavioural shifts, and the invisible patterns that shape our routines.
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1 month ago | 
ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson
Shademomo Iwasaki is a trailblazing contemporary artist whose work brings a powerful voice to today’s art scene. Born and raised in Japan to a Ghanaian father and Japanese mother, she draws deeply from her biracial heritage to create art that is both personal and boldly experimental.
