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Film Features
You Can Be Anything: On Oscar Micheaux, History's Most Prolific African American Filmmaker
“An educated Negro,” smirks a crooked policeman in Oscar Micheaux’s Birthright (1938), “Is a da...
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Film Features
The Killing Joke: War Comedy In 'Da 5 Bloods' And 'Apocalypse Now'
In MAS*H, Robert Altman’s 1970 goofy Vietnam war satire, Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan pro...
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A Quietus Interview
Intimacy Is The Only Solution: Jehnny Beth Interviewed
We first meet inside the door of her PR's office, as Covid looms, during the floods. Jehnny Bet...
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Black Sky Thinking
My Name Is Prince: On Race, Identity & The End Of The Love Symbol
May 2020 marks two decades since Prince reclaimed his real name after living as a symbol for se...
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Books
Becoming Prince: The Beautiful Ones Reviewed
“I took this picture of the heater and I, in the bathroom mirror,” Prince wrote. This turned out...
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Album Of The Week
Prince In A Camisole: Undressing The ‘Originals’ Album
“Vanity! Vanity!” Sixth months after Prince’s accidental overdose, a singer in a raspberry red...
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Film Features
Nothing Fabulous Lasts: Fleshback, Studio 54 & Alt-Sex Clubbing On Film
I was explaining to a brunette in black lace why we “would not be doing kissing” – because toni...
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Film Features
Vamping Into The Void: Betty Davis – They Say I’m Different
Phil Cox, director of the new documentary on Betty Davis, was in prison, puzzling over a long l...
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