Tag: watch
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BARBIE- A Love Letter From Daughter to Mother.
I cannot remember how old I was when I got my first Barbie but it’s safe to say I was under ten, growing up in a household where wild curiosity and creativity was encouraged, before the trappings of the real world meant we had to expect otherwise. I had pregnant Barbie. I didn’t know her…
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QUEEN CHARLOTTE- WHORES TO THE LEFT, VIRGINS TO THE RIGHT AND HEARTS IN THE MIDDLE
There is a moment in Queen Charlotte, and we are swept up in the moment with them, when they are suspended in the bliss of each other and world around them fades away; in that moment he is Just George and she is Charlotte who did not go over the wall. It is a moment…
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WATCH – HARLEM, AMAZON
Harlem, by Tracy Oliver of Girl’s Trip fame is a series that centres four Black women, best friends, following them as they navigate the complex world of dating, careers, girl bossing and microaggressions in a world familiar to them but slowly changing and succumbing to gentrification amongst other things. It mashes up the better elements of Sex…
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WATCH- INVENTING ANNA
The thing about Anna Delvey is that she is unremarkable; she’s not special, she’s not smart, she talks a good game and kudos to her, but everyone around her, everyone involved with her, was a fucking moron. It is the only excuse they have for falling for her bullshit; every single one of them was…
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SEARCHING FOR ITALY- A LOVE STORY
Arms talking, heads thrown back in laughter, tables creaking with food; pasta, cheese, meats, the best olive oil… filling piazzas, rushing water against stone, grand statues, cobbled roads, crumbling corners, an active volcano, and a kind of chaos that moves you… This is Italy. A land where togetherness is a requisite for admittance, almost. Over…
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WATCH- HIGH ON THE HOG
There is a moment when this documentary reaches in and touches the core of who we are as Black people, unleashes our stories on the world and reveals us to ourselves through our roots. It is from the very beginning, guided gently through the stories of Dr Jessica Harris. Food. When Black people cook, it…
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LINE OF DUTY SEASON SIX- MR BEAN STYLE END TO A BOND SAGA…
BUCKELLS?!! IAN FUCKING BUCKELLS?!! Mother that wee donkey! Gates was right in season one; Buckells is a plonker, an absolute wee gobshite and I refuse to believe we lived through six seasons, over ten years, only to find out that the fella who can barely scrape by being a copper with what sounds like grade…
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WATCH| Queen & Slim- For Us By Us
Because I cannot get enough of Daniel Kaluuya. I was privileged enough to watch this movie before lock down ensued in London- I say privilege because these types of movies are rare and often get eclipsed in the plethora of Hollywood remakes and recycles- I have watched it several times over lockdown and the sentiment…
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WATCH | BRIDGERTON- EXQUISITE IN EVERY, SINGLE, SCANDALOUS MANNER.
Whenever Black characters are cast in programmes of any genre or in any setting real or imagined, there is an automatically added prism through which such setting is observed or programme viewed. It is an additional layer of scrutiny of the narrative, storylines, arcs, dialogue, each and every character development, especially Black characters, every single…