Reviews

My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow review – an epic, vital project
D is for Distance review – a free-associative, psychogeographical collage
Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a stimulating and wry survey of modern Naples
They Will Kill You review – limb-lopping cartoon action with a political twist
Orwell 2+2=5 review – Orwell for Dummies
Two Prosecutors review – a quaint variation on a story told many times before

Features

The Queer Cinematic Magic of Robyn
Kink in the Archive: The pleasures of porn in public
Ryan Gosling – Jacket Man
Going Underground: Five picks from CPH:DOX
Sheep, grief and beats: The big-hearted DJ Ahmet
Help to save one of the UK’s oldest cinemas

Contributor Nirris Nagendrarajah

Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette

In Praise Of

The queer optimism of My Beautiful Laundrette

by Nirris Nagendrarajah

As Stephen Frears’ 1985 dramedy turns 40, a writer discovers a hopeful mirror in the lovers at the centre of the film.

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My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow review – an epic, vital project

D is for Distance review – a free-associative, psychogeographical collage

Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a stimulating and wry survey of modern Naples

They Will Kill You review – limb-lopping cartoon action with a political twist

Orwell 2+2=5 review – Orwell for Dummies

Two Prosecutors review – a quaint variation on a story told many times before

The Queer Cinematic Magic of Robyn

Kink in the Archive: The pleasures of porn in public

Ryan Gosling – Jacket Man

Going Underground: Five picks from CPH:DOX

Sheep, grief and beats: The big-hearted DJ Ahmet

Help to save one of the UK’s oldest cinemas

The queer optimism of My Beautiful Laundrette