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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Luke Turner |Puja Nandi
Look closely at the cultural tapestry of the UK, and you’ll clearly see Bengal, the region spread between India and what is now Bangladesh, woven into it. It’s a shared relationship that stretches back over the centuries: the start of the East India Company in the 1600s was the launchpad for conniving little imps (imperialists) to turn up with flags to name Calcutta the capital of Empire (and exploitation).
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1 month ago | 
filmhounds.co.uk | Puja Nandi
If your appetite for dramatised accounts of very British public scandals has been triggered by Mr Bates vs The Post Office, then Toxic Town is your next move. It's a four-part Netflix series elucidating a public travesty of pollution and malpractice, now a salient reminder of the dangers of unchecked power. The writer, Jack Thorne, has developed a portfolio of socially-conscious storytelling.
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Puja Nandi
Jojo Orme, the solo face behind Heartworms, made quite an entrance with her 2023 EP, A Comforting Notion and she’s now here with her debut album, Glutton For Punishment. Despite toned-down military regalia, which she’s swapped to vaguely resemble a goth cardinal of sorts, she’s just as effusive about war history on her debut.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
filmhounds.co.uk | Puja Nandi
All We Imagine As Light, directed by Payal Kapadia, is a delicate exploration of intimacy, love, and sisterhood. It opens with sweeping shots of nighttime Mumbai; hawkers selling street food and commuters bustling into trains. Overlaying this, are voices in regional Indian languages like Bengali and Marathi, explaining snippets of their lives.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
filmhounds.co.uk | Puja Nandi |Freddie Deighton
“You can make as many movies and write as many novels as you want, but…
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
filmhounds.co.uk | Puja Nandi
A film that replays in your mind for days after screening and creates a stronger emotional response the more you think about it is sacred. And Nickel Boys is just that. Perhaps director RaMell Ross felt the same way after reading the Pulitzer-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, from which Nickel Boys is adapted and named. Whitehead's characteristic nuanced prose, and melding of historical realism and allegory, could lead you to think his novels are unfilmable.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
filmhounds.co.uk | Puja Nandi
Adam Elliot’s second feature-length film, Memoir of a Snail, is a bittersweet whirlwind of emotions through “clayography” -a term Elliot coined himself to describe his specific way of making clay animation to depict the biographical details of a person’s life. In Memoir of a Snail, the travails of Grace Pudel, voiced by Sara Snook, are laid bare. Grace is a lonely woman who finds solace in hoarding and hanging out with garden snails.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Puja Nandi
Nonpareils is Aaron Hemphill’s solo project, which he launched several years after leaving Liars. His second album, Rhetoric & Terror, takes its name from a chapter in a book by Giorgio Agamben titled The Man Without Content. The book, published in 1970, raises questions over whether art has become detached from its existential purpose and hollowed out into mere logic and form.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Puja Nandi |Bobby Barry
Floating Points often induces a ‘madeleine moment’ for me, transporting me back to a dimly lit, subterranean room on Curtain Road in Shoreditch where music was the binder that fizzed between you and strangers. Strangers that became your friends by the end of the night – minimal words needed. The now long-gone Plastic People was where Floating Points spun alongside Four Tet and Theo Parrish.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
soundspheremag.com | Puja Nandi
Twisters, the standalone sequel to the original Twister from 1996, will blow you off your feet with its overdrive on blockbuster tackiness. On the other hand, it’s silly popcorn cinema so if you’re after cheap cinematic thrills, this is probably your ticket. Twisters is a surprising big-budget overture for director Lee Isaac Chung. He had impressed many with his semi-autobiographical film, Minari, for which he won numerous Oscar nominations.
