Music
Pop is so good right now. Why?
A lot of people are citing the return to recession pop as the scary factor, but I say, dear reader, that the return to slightly off-key synths and cassette sounds should be far scarier.
Umnia El-Neil
Umnia El-Neil is a British-Sudanese culture opinion writer and Shonda Rhimes TGIT Graduate.
The Case
The case for Gen Z’s Sex Scene Repulsion
There are methods to our madness.
Film
Flow
A masterful dialogue-less story on par with the most devastating Pixar fare you can imagine.
Festivals
BFI Flare Dream Team: Most Anticip-...
...ated! (Because we think these films will EAT!)
Letter from the Editor
A Re-Introduction.
Hello, Aficionados.
Film
8 Films we think will dominate 2025
Come get your bets in early for bragging rights in December!
Festivals
Preview: BFI Flare 2025
Our top picks coming to one of the coolest festivals on the calendar...
Trophy Case
The Importance of Being Ncuti
I mean...Earnest!
Trophy Case
I’m Still Here (TikTok Review)
@obscurae ♬ original sound - OBSCURAE
Opinion
Oh…!: UMNIA’s Academy Awards 2025 Post-Mortem
This is an opinion piece, I promise. So, I slept through the Oscars last night. This was mostly apathy, and the fact that I didn’t want to witness an Emilia Pérez sweep live and in glorious technicolor. The universe seems to have taken mercy on me and given it
Reviews
The People’s Joker: The hero we need.
It is always so nice to descend on the Prince Charles Cinema and realise you’re surrounded by passionate people. I feel that venues like the PCC are some of the only places left in the modern world where people aren’t pretending to be too cool, or nonchalant -
Festivals
The Wolves Always Come At Night
In our world, storms level dreams, and farmers become construction workers. This was a very emotional film about forced goodbyes, a relocation of the cowboys to the big city, against their will, away from their true loves, divorced from what makes them them. Under the sword of Climate Change, much