Farewell to Shrill: truly radical TV that laughs in the face of fatphobia | Television
[ad_1] Warning: this article contains spoilers for all three series of Shrill on Hulu/BBC Two. “I am not concerned with whether or not fat people can change their bodies through self-discipline and ‘choices’. Pretty much all of them have tried already. A couple of them have succeeded. Whatever. My question is, what if they try […]
Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to see a British Muslim Sopranos’ | Stage
[ad_1] Hanif Kureishi has been reflecting on toxic masculinity. He has heard a lot about it in the past year and it has entered the fiction he has been writing over lockdown – at quite a rate by the sound of it – and sparked stories about predation, sexual misdemeanour and “what’s going on between […]
Outrage as male voice actor dubs Laverne Cox in Italian-language Promising Young Woman | Movies
[ad_1] The Italian-language version of Emerald Fennell’s revenge thriller Promising Young Woman has come under fire for giving trans actor Laverne Cox a male voice. Scheduled to hit theatres across the country on 13 May, the release has been pushed back after a clip of Una Donna Promettente was posted by Universal Pictures Italy on […]
The anti-Marie Kondo: Netflix celebrates the clothes we keep | Documentary
[ad_1] I am not a minimalist: I don’t want to live with extreme amounts of nothing. I like “things”, and I like my things, which means I have several boxes of clothes, bags and shoes in my possession that have accompanied me through the best part of two decades. One of the boxes is my […]
Why are historical figures presumed straight? Francis Lee on causing outrage with Ammonite | Ammonite
[ad_1] The love story Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet as the 19th-century fossil-hunter and palaeontologist Mary Anning, was chosen to close last year’s London film festival, but its director, Francis Lee, has yet to see it with an audience. “I live in Yorkshire,” he explains. Behind him are wooden beams, a kitchen table, red and yellow […]
From Line of Duty to The Fall: why can’t TV shows stop killing women? | TV crime drama
[ad_1] “A few years ago I was sent something: ‘Here’s the premise, a woman’s body found naked wrapped in clingfilm, where do you go next?’” That one example from an anonymous screenwriter perfectly captures crime drama’s obsession with violence against women. Sometimes we talk about that a lot, other times it just washes over us. […]
‘You worry you’ll be seen as weak’: single dads in their own words – a photo essay | Art and design
[ad_1] Harry Borden was 13 when he developed his first photograph – a portrait of his father, Charles, as he mucked out the pigs on their family farm in Devon. Borden, 55, is now one of the leading photographers in the UK. But his childhood was spent in “concrete buildings on a cold, north-facing hill, […]
Nude selfies: are they now art? | Books
[ad_1] Have you ever sent a nude selfie? The question draws a thick red line between generations, throwing one side into a panic while the other just laughs. And yet, as far back as 2009, that fount of moral wisdom, Kanye West, was advising how to stay safe. “When you take the picture cut off […]
‘It was a little awkward’ – how Rick Schatzberg shot his old friends topless | Art and design
[ad_1] Rick Schatzberg had a dark epiphany a few years back, when two of his friends died in quick succession, one from a heart attack, the other from an overdose. “When two people you know and love die within six weeks of each other,” says the photographer quietly, “you realise that death is not just […]
