Q&A
‘Making music is a luxury, you need to be wary of privilege’
Talking to The Big Moon — Ahead of dropping their second album, the London four-piece talk burnout, class and why younger generations are leading the push for a better future.
Written by: Colin Gannon
Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges on acting as therapy
Honey boys — The two actors play versions of Shia LaBeouf at different stages of his life, in a film that he wrote in rehab. To mark its UK release, we find about their own relationships with stardom.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
The paranormal drama exploring migration and loss
Inside Atlantics — To mark the it‘s UK release, we speak to filmmaker Mati Diop about her haunting debut – a story about uprooting, told from the perspective of the people left behind.
Written by: Katie Goh
The 18-year-old astronaut gearing up for Mars
Meet Alyssa Carson — Alyssa Carlson is set to be one of the first humans on the red planet – an achievement that would see her journey come full circle.
Written by: Huck
The Sundance breakout taking on gentrification
Tales of the city — Ahead of its UK release, the team behind The Last Black Man In San Francisco explain how they made this year’s indie breakout – a story about friendship, solitude and displacement.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
Why Tegan and Sara took themselves back to high school
An origin story — In their first memoir, the indie pop duo journey through their adolescent years – an odyssey of sex, drugs and self-discovery.
Written by: Katie Goh
The film exploring masculinity and black British identity
The Last Tree — Shola Amoo’s second film follows a Nigerian-British foster child as he moves from the countryside to the city. To mark its release, the director and star Sam Adewunmi discuss their own experiences navigating identity and location.
Written by: Kambole Campbell
The wild story of the world’s biggest white-collar heist
The Kleptocrats — A new documentary follows reporters and law enforcement agents as they track an audacious scam – one that involves embezzlement, corruption, film stars and politicians.
Written by: Daniel Dylan Wray
Filmmaker Lulu Wang talks laughing through the tears
The Farewell — The writer-director’s tragicomic drama begins with words ‘Based on an actual lie’. Ahead of the film’s US release, she discusses adapting a real-life fib into one of 2019’s most buzzed-about films – one that finds laughter among the melancholy.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
The radical queer activist who shook up Chilean society
Being Lemebel — Pedro Lemebel was an artist, writer and pioneering figure in Latin America’s LGBTQ movement. Four years after his death, a new film shines a light on his remarkable life.
Written by: Jake Hall