Blogging seriously about films and other things
White Supremacist Cinema: Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, USA, 2019)
This post will segue from a discussion of Booksmart to a discussion of issues relating to the Karen meme. The link might not for some readers be fully concrete, but in a week when Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake 7 times, and in which Kyle Rittenhouse killed two protestors and seriously injured one more in Kenosha,…
Notes from the London Kurdish Film Festival 2020
Over the past two weeks or so, it has been a huge honour and a great pleasure to act as a member of the jury for the 2020 London Kurdish Film Festival (as well as to do a workshop/’masterclass’ on no-budget filmmaking with them). I was lucky enough to catch 30 short films during the…
White Supremacist Cinema: The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie, UK/USA, 2019)
Perhaps the biggest problem with racism in the UK is the UK’s belief that it does not have one. The ‘it’ from the previous sentence should be defined as pertaining most specifically to the UK’s white population, perhaps especially those white citizens who identify solely as British nationals. And yet, when we watch a film…
Blue Story (Rapman, UK, 2019)
I came to Blue Story with a pre-formed mix of admiration and expectation. The admiration arises from Rapman’s meteoric rise as a rapper from ends being signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation – much on the back of Rapman’s music videos/online series, Shiro’s Story (UK, 2018). Shiro’s Story involves some solid storytelling – with Rapman himself functioning as…
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