Donald Glover

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Completely In The Present: The Future Blues Of Childish Gambino’s 3.15.20

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The Strange World Of… Childish Gambino

Just over a decade ago Donald Glover AKA Childish Gambino was a promising young comic actor and script writer who had a not very convincing side line as an indie hip hop musician. Aimee Armstrong examines how he became the world-bestriding talent who released This Is America

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Double Take: Kim Gordon & Bill Nace On The Art That Inspired Body/Head

From Twin Peaks and Circuit des Yeux to Atlanta and Pink Floyd, Kim Gordon and Bill Nace reveal the records, films, TV shows and books that made an imprint on the writing and recording of their new album  

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Sci-Fi in Translation: Dante 01 and La Antena

Can foreign filmmakers inject new life into the tired genre of science fiction? Yes and no, finds Dave Moats.

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Welcome To Hallyuwood: Bong Joon-Ho’s Shorts And The Korean New Wave

Before Parasite, Bong Joon-ho had certainly always been keeping busy. At this year's London Korean Film Festival, two of the director's short films are testament to the dramatic rise of the Hallyuwood film industry, finds James Balmont

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Never Growing Up: Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World At 20

Ghost World was far from the first coming of age film, but its portrayal of unresolved cynicism and self-consciousness still resonates 20 years on, finds David Robb

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Another Planet: The Quietus’ Top 20 Favourite Cinema Memories

As the UK finally prepares to reopen its cinema doors, tQ contributors remember their most precious memories that could have only happened in front of the big screen

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Icarus Also Flew: Fitzcarraldo And Herzog’s Blockbuster Ambition

Werner Herzog has always proudly presented himself as a populist filmmaker, but that ambition is nowhere more apparent than in his 40-year-old blockbuster effort Fitzcarraldo, finds Harry Harris

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Mapping Obsession: A Personal Vertigo Pilgrimage

Siobhan McKeown visits the San Francisco locations and explores the multiplicity of meanings in Hitchcock's iconic 1958 picture, which is screening all this month at BFI Southbank. Photos by Darren Ambrose

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The Killing Joke: War Comedy In ‘Da 5 Bloods’ And ‘Apocalypse Now’

Spike Lee's new film Da 5 Bloods, on Netflix now, grapples with the irony of war and eulogises male togetherness as a moral good. Soma Ghosh explains how its comedy capsizes under pedantry

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Afrofuturist Sonic Dreamworlds: On Black Panther

On place, history, and identity in Ryan Coogler's Black Panther film

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Dream On: Could ‘9 To 5’ Still Exist, 40 Years Later?

The feelgood workplace comedy saw Dolly Parton team up with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin to take down their sexist, bigoted boss. But with so little having changed for women 40 years later, is it even worth imagining a future?

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Donald Glover

Reviews 1

Completely In The Present: The Future Blues Of Childish Gambino’s 3.15.20

Articles 1

The Strange World Of… Childish Gambino

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Double Take: Kim Gordon & Bill Nace On The Art That Inspired Body/Head

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Completely In The Present: The Future Blues Of Childish Gambino’s 3.15.20

Articles 1

The Strange World Of… Childish Gambino

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Double Take: Kim Gordon & Bill Nace On The Art That Inspired Body/Head

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Most Popular

Peel the Layers: Nilüfer Yanya’s Favourite Albums

Three Album Run: How 20th Century Metal Never Bettered Slayer’s Unholy Trilogy

At Breaking Point: Black Sabbath’s Sabotage Revisited

Noel Gallagher Selects His Thirteen Favourite Albums

The Multitudes in Us: Kae Tempest’s Favourite Records

Sound Of Creation: Adrian Sherwood’s 13 Favourite Albums

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)

AI Elvis Appears in New Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Video for ‘Tupelo’

Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of July 2025

A Photocopy of a Polaroid of an X-Ray of a Ghost: The Sabres Of Paradise Reissues

Sheer Momentum: Jack Barnett of These New Puritans’ Favourite Music

Wrestle Mania: The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed by The Armed

Rubber Rings: Johnny Marr’s Favourite Albums

Previously Read

Sci-Fi in Translation: Dante 01 and La Antena

Welcome To Hallyuwood: Bong Joon-Ho’s Shorts And The Korean New Wave

Never Growing Up: Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World At 20

Another Planet: The Quietus’ Top 20 Favourite Cinema Memories

Icarus Also Flew: Fitzcarraldo And Herzog’s Blockbuster Ambition

Mapping Obsession: A Personal Vertigo Pilgrimage

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