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A New Dawn for Italian Cinema in the UK
CinemaItaliaUK has launched a new streaming platform dedicated to Italian cinema, offering UK audiences access to a curated selection of classic and contemporary films. With titles ranging from Fellini’s 8½ to hidden gems like A Special Day, the player provides a timely cultural window into the richness of Italy’s cinematic legacy.
Restriction is the Mother of Invention
This piece tells the important and fascinating story of Sophia Duleep Singh, an Indian princess who was both a prominent suffragette in the UK and god-daughter to Queen Victoria, in an engaging and impressively innovative way.
Black Queer Voices
Brave Beauties shot from 2014 onwards consist of a series of portraits of Trans women, gender non-conforming and non-binary. Many of the women photographed are also beauty pageant contestants. They enter these pageants in order to change the mind set of those present. Those who are often happy to persecute trans-women. So, these images challenge transphobic stereotypes and stigmas.
THE CROWN – PART 2
In the now notorious Oprah Winfrey interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex we saw an image of a highly fractured royal family. It was indeed eerie to see how the tale they told bore uncanny similarities to the one we had just been watching; a dysfunctional family with the added ingredient of charges of racism.
Cinema: Dunkirk, Churchill and the Brexiteers
Explore Dunkirk and Darkest Hour, two films that highlight British resilience and the tragedy of war amidst Brexit reflections.