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8 months

so, for @dazed , i wrote about saltburn, emerald fennell, and posh people writing class satire

Saltburn: Can posh people write good class satire?

Emerald Fennell’s second film was billed as the British entry into the ‘eat the rich’ genre – but it fails to truly criticise the elite, argues Patrick Sproull

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5 months

this, a disney channel original movie, cost 5x less than the new mean girls and the difference in choreography, colour, direction is.. insane. it looks like singin in the rain by comparison because we're fed absolute slops now

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the cast of high school musical were dancing for their lives here

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8 months

kinda mad how easily emerald fennell is getting away with it again. i've only seen one (1) interviewer ask about her background and the similarities to the family in saltburn

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a void of a person

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I interviewed Keir Starmer for today’s ⁦ @GdnSaturday ⁩

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@patrick_sproull

4 years

just give everyone “ass” ???

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4 years

Next year we should just give everyone A*s.

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2 years

i wrote about how everything is about rich people being the worst now and i’m bored ! ( @TheFaceMagazine )

Why does all "eat the rich" satire look the same now?

From Glass Onion and The Menu to Triangle of Sadness , right now, there's only one message (ironically) coming out of Hollywood: rich people are bad.

theface.com

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eleanor

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1 year

not to sound like a snob but it genuinely is sad to see young people passionate about learning get sucked into LinkedIn investment pop psychology learning styles healthy habits start-up finance podcast culture because that's the only framework of learning they've come across

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8 months

she's known collaborators richard e grant and andrew lloyd webber since she was 12. called in favours for the saltburn location. there's so much to talk about!

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8 months

meanwhile, for scrapper, charlotte regan got the third degree about being a Working Class Filmmaker

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@patrick_sproull

2 years

this entire production is like the new oxford street sweet shops

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2 years

if i were beanie feldstein i would never recover from this

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@patrick_sproull

11 months

wrote about how talking about harry styles’ sexuality in 2023 is boring and malicious - move on!

For the love of God, stop talking about Harry Styles’ sexuality

Is the pop star's private life really any of our business?

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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@patrick_sproull

11 months

i wrote about heartstopper season two and why gen z are not this squeaky clean (or sexless)

Heartstopper is undeniably sweet – but are teens really this well behaved?

The cast might have grown up since season one, writes Patrick Sproull, but the Netflix series has not

www.independent.co.uk

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@patrick_sproull

1 year

obsessed with lukas gage starring in how to blow up a pipeline then posting a photo on kim k’s jet

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1 month

wait a second..

Jo Bradley

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GUYS i need u to watch this video of some tiktokker interviewing Baz Luhrmann on the streets of newtown and not knowing who he is 😩😩😩

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1 year

fleur jaeggy talking about her typewriter, hermes, lives rent free in my mind

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1 year

“Gillian Anderson plays Emily Maitlis” is like something that came to emerald fennell in a dream

Netflix UK & Ireland

@NetflixUK

1 year

– Gillian Anderson plays Emily Maitlis, Newsnight’s lead presenter who conducted the interview – Keeley Hawes plays Amanda Thirsk, Private Secretary to Prince Andrew – Billie Piper plays Sam McAlister, who negotiated the bombshell booking – Rufus Sewell plays Prince Andrew

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patrick

@patrick_sproull

2 years

nah, this barry keoghan profile by @douglasgrnwd really is something special

The wildness of Barry Keoghan

He’s the character actor beloved by arthouse directors, whose brooding intensity has landed him coveted roles in cinema’s biggest franchises. But to really know Barry Keoghan – the year’s most...

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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@patrick_sproull

2 years

please share and retweet!! ❤️❤️

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1 year

@scottygb this is plainly censorship

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1 year

daisy edgar-jones dropping out of RRR to be in normal people, an insane sliding doors moment

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@patrick_sproull

11 months

i like heartstopper a lot and i would like it to be as brave as its cast

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@patrick_sproull

3 years

for @wmag , i interviewed sara ramírez about their role in AND JUST LIKE THAT…, being non-binary in carrie bradshaw’s world, SATC’s historic transphobia and the ‘woke’ criticism

Sara Ramírez Values “Progress Over Perfection”

The ‘And Just Like That...’ star talks about correcting the original series' mistakes, the limits of LBTQ+ visibility, and why they're nothing like Che Diaz IRL.

www.wmagazine.com

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patrick

@patrick_sproull

11 months

absolutely insane thing to say about a man whose inner life billy porter knows nothing about

Pop Base

@PopBase

11 months

Billy Porter breaks down his issue with Harry Styles being the first solo man to cover Vogue, in new interview with The Telegraph: “[He’s] white and he’s straight. That’s why he’s on the cover. Non-binary blah blah blah blah. No. It doesn’t feel good to me. You’re using my

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@patrick_sproull

2 years

not another joe alwyn flop.. this man isn’t surviving the month

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2 years

stars at noon: thinking about joe alwyn professing his love while looking completely lifeless. go off king! give us nothing! #cannes2022

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@patrick_sproull

2 years

a while ago i spoke to @troyesivan , the actor, for @wmag

Troye Sivan Is Finally Going Into Full Actor Mode

The star of ‘Three Months,’ a Paramount+ dramedy about a young teen exposed to HIV, is only just now allowing himself to feel like he's a serious actor.

www.wmagazine.com

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@patrick_sproull

2 years

absolutely obsoosed with this card

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1 year

i asked caroline calloway (!!) 50 questions for @AnOtherMagazine

50 Questions With Caroline Calloway

As her long-awaited memoir finally comes out, Caroline Calloway answers AnOther’s 50 Questions, covering everything from her feud with Natalie Beach to her inspirations behind Scammer

www.anothermag.com

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1 year

remember when taylor russell decided to wear this for a london film festival screening at like 4pm on a tuesday

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@patrick_sproull

3 years

honestly, nothing i’ve read has captured promising young woman’s superficiality more than this piece. just breathtaking in its precision and efficacy

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patrick

@patrick_sproull

10 years

I just screamed at the TV. I'm not joking. I'm not exaggerating #HappyValley

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@patrick_sproull

1 year

turned 25 today and woke up with back pain, this is too on the nose!!

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3 years

extremely excited to make my @independent debut going deep on the moral crisis facing the real housewives

How the Real Housewives franchise came crashing down to earth

The US reality franchise became a television institution with tales of scandal, opulence and psychic premonitions, but it’s recently been dented by racism and alleged criminality. As ‘Beverly Hills’...

www.independent.co.uk

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1 year

i wrote about how every celebrity is apparently an actor now ( @TheFaceMagazine )

So, is every celebrity an actor now?

From Harry Styles in Don't Worry Darling to Kim Kardashian's upcoming turn in American Horror Story , it's now nearly impossible to watch a TV show or film that doesn't have a random celeb in it for...

theface.com

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@patrick_sproull

4 years

who amongst us hasn't trafficked children around the world for our pedophile boyfriend?

Guardian Opinion

@guardianopinion

4 years

Ghislaine Maxwell is no victim. But did she fear Epstein's rejection? | Barbara Ellen

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@patrick_sproull

2 years

all the books i adored that were published in 2022

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2 years

for @i_D i spoke to gregg araki about the 30th anniversary of the living end

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@patrick_sproull

2 years

hope her publicist/family have the good sense to hide every electronic device in the new york tri-state area, good bye lenin! style

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@patrick_sproull

10 years

I don't want to say anything too extreme but @neilhimself not being at @edbookfest is like Christ missing the Last Supper.

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@patrick_sproull

1 year

i profiled nicola dinan for her incredible debut novel, BELLIES ( @i_D )

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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@patrick_sproull

5 months

that emmy she's holding is for her performance in jennifer lopez's dressing room

Variety

@Variety

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Jennifer Lopez on performing with Ayo Edebiri on SNL: “She came to my dressing room and apologized with tears in her eyes, saying how terrible it was that she had said those things. She felt really badly and loved my performance because we had just done my soundcheck and she

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4 years

anwar hadid coming out as anti-vax this xmas eve, dua run !!!!!!

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2 years

it was an absolute pleasure speaking to @travisalabanza about their incredible memoir, NONE OF THE ABOVE, for @Independent

Travis Alabanza: ‘People think transness is an identity you pick up at university’

Poet and performer Travis Alabanza’s memoir ‘None of the Above’ is a journey through their gender identity. They tell Patrick Sproull about being non-binary, the ‘crisis’ they experienced while...

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9 months

cannot stop thinking about this quote

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@patrick_sproull

3 years

not sure comparing jk rowling to woody allen is helping your case, hadley

Hadley Freeman

@HadleyFreeman

3 years

They could ask Timothee Chalamet, Kate Winslet and all the other actors who at least had the courage of their convictions and donated the money they made from working with Woody Allen, after deciding they could no longer justify it to themselves

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1 year

we have a *very* special visitor this weekend

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8 months

@laura_venning arresting you for not considering it to be a heartwarming and hilarious ode to queer womanhood and deliciously twisted update of the classic high school comedy

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9 months

i profiled troye sivan for @i_D . we chatted about his new album, queening out with the dolls and loving his body

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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2 years

can't wait to log it on letterboxd

Variety

@Variety

2 years

U.K. Cinemas to Close or Screen Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral for Free on Sept. 19

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2 years

@savannahbrown why is the second photo giving

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4 years

@alex_abads i think the point handler was trying to make was that home again is like a nancy meyers movie despite *technically* being directed by her daughter — was more positive than reductive IMO

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2 years

it's over for emily

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for @TheFaceMagazine i spoke to @tgirlsonfilm and @funeralparade_ about their amazing work in film programming (and force-femming audience members)

The trans film programmers dolling up British cinema

Through screenings that unearth cinema's forgotten trans women, queer film societies TGirlsOnFilm and Funeral Parade are giving trans moviegoers a place to come together while shining a light on the...

theface.com

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3 years

in love with emma dabiri for turning a sally rooney book talk into a 90 minute roundtable on socialism, anti-capitalism, and the class struggle

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@patrick_sproull

2 years

let me tell you, we were all *wide awake* at that 8.30am sunday screening

Netflix

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In love. In strength. In ecstasy. Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell star in a sensual new adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Premieres December 2.

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that s*ltburn best picture nomination is going to absolutely finish me off

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2 years

i spoke to one of our greatest scream queens, jennifer tilly, about all things chucky in my debut at @thecut

Jennifer Tilly Might Stay in the Chucky Universe Forever

The Chucky star talks about this season’s most meta episode yet.

www.thecut.com

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@douglasgrnwd when my distributor asks me to make my 8th tiktok of the week

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elizabeth hurley and brendan fraser reuniting … a moment most pleasing to me

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i've always been obsessed with cartoon characters in drag and what they represent for kids, so i wrote about them for @TheFaceMagazine

Cartoon characters are the OG drag icons

From Bugs Bunny’s ringlet wigs to Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch ’s iconic fuck-ass bob, for many, cartoons are an early introduction to gender variance – and no one bats an eyelid.

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i interviewed olivier assayas for @AnOtherMagazine . we discussed his extraordinary IRMA VEP remake, whether it's 'meta' and why david hockney(?) is “the greatest theoretician of cinema"

Olivier Assayas on Reviving His 90s Classic, Irma Vep

As the new mini-series arrives on HBO, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas discusses the state of contemporary cinema and enlisting Alicia Vikander as his lead

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@patrick_sproull

9 months

she’s scabbing

Netflix UK & Ireland

@NetflixUK

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Feathers? Combed. Wings? Fluffed. Queen Babs is red carpet-ready for the world premiere of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget at #LFF

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making it onto this account the day silly little letterboxd review discourse kicks up is a real monkey’s paw

letterboxd reviews with threatening auras

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3 years

he / they / house of gucci

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2 years

i couldn't help but wonder... was everyone wrong about and just like that? ( @i_D )

i-D

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2 years

every year we stray further from a douglas sirk christmas

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2 years

two hit pieces in one day?? happy rachel connolly day to all those who celebrate

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Wrote about wanting more than these melodramatic personal essays we keep seeing (** not referring to writing about traumatic experiences but about experiences which just aren't that bad!!!)

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for @i_D i got on my soapbox about male intimacy, masculinity and, yes, the submissive and breedable meme that's haunted the internet all summer

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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2 years

hadley freeman on 22 years interviewing stars about woody allen and transgender people

The Guardian

@guardian

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Celebrities? They’re all a bit weird … Hadley Freeman on 22 years interviewing stars

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i was so, so happy to profile the people's princess, @dakota_schiffer , for @anothermagazine

Meeting Dakota Schiffer, the Chicest Queen in Drag Race UK Herstory

Dakota Schiffer discusses growing up in West Sussex, her entry into drag, and her time on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

www.anothermag.com

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1 year

a couple of weeks ago i met max porter at the southbank and we talked about his strange, furious new novel, SHY (out today), for the @Independent

Max Porter: ‘Empower yourself to think carefully about men and masculinity’

As he releases his fourth novel, ‘Shy’, Max Porter talks to Patrick Sproull about the end of his ‘boyhood’ trilogy, sensitivity readers, and still reading Philip Roth and Ted Hughes

www.independent.co.uk

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3 years

society if céline sciamma ever makes a film with a male protagonist

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3 years

loved chatting to @adamzmith about his excellent new book, deep sniff, for @HUCKmagazine . we talked poppers, fluid identities and SOPHIE..

Deep Sniff: what poppers mean in the fight for queer liberation

Author Adam Zmith discusses his new book tracing the history of poppers from its past inhalations on gay club dancefloors and the drug’s role in forging a…

www.huckmag.com

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1 year

just fell to my knees on the tube

Variety

@Variety

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For one night only, the “Sex and the City” universe will be whole again. Variety has learned that Kim Cattrall will reprise her iconic role as Samantha Jones in the Season 2 finale of “And Just Like That,” Max’s revival of HBO’s “Sex and the City.”

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doing some work at GQ this week so for my first piece i wrote about why audiences have been so discriminating at the box office this summer

This summer's blockbuster season might change cinema forever

Big dumb action flicks M:I 7 and Meg 2: The Trench have proven unfit to lace Barbie or Oppenheimer's boots, suggesting audiences are after a more meaningful experience at the movies

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2 years

i wrote about the it girl for @thefacemagazine

Whatever happened to the It Girl?

The reign of celebs like Alexa Chung and Cara Delevingne is officially over – but the It Girl is still about. You just have to look a little harder for her.

theface.com

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@BritishBakeOff read the room !!!!

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@thethirdhan lmao. i feel like this goes hand in hand with no one actually questioning whether saltburn is a Biting, Thrilling Satire. everyone's just repeating how Biting and Thrilling and Satirical it is cause the trailer said so

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i interviewed honor levy, who is not my friend, about her first book and having regrets, for @papermagazine

Honor Levy Doesn't Care If You've Read Her Book

“I don’t know if [Harambe]'s in the book, but he should be."

www.papermag.com

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2 years

friendship ENDED with rupaul

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2 years

westfield stratford has to be the most unholy place in london

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never forget HER contribution to the culture

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4 years

@ianamurray it's the blah blah blah .. MICHELLE OBAMA for me

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i went for coffee with thomasin mckenzie and we talked about eileen, staring at anne hathaway, and playing outcasts, for @i_d

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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2 years

biggest trend in indie cinema is directors named charlotte making films about young fathers and their 12 year old daughters

Film Updates

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Harris Dickinson on the set of Charlotte Regan’s SCRAPPER, premiering at #Sundance 2023. He plays a young father who attempts to reconcile with his estranged 12-year-old daughter.

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Impossibly sexy slipcase box set of #12Doctors12Stories by @monstroso , @philipreeve1 , @neilhimself , @hollyblack et al http://t.co/TDMuHcpVgg

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it’s that time of the night

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1 year

reading spare on the tube but shaking my head so people know i disagree

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11 months

🕯 i wrote a eulogy for riverdale 🕯 ( @i_D )

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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an honour to speak to one of my favourite directors, todd haynes, about the film of the year, for @wmag

How Todd Haynes Navigated the Salacious Heart of 'May December'

Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore face off in the Mary Kay Letourneau-inspired melodrama.

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11 months

downfall of lizzo has been unbelievable to watch. we're onto 'lizzo supported man who trampled woman in wheelchair' levels and it's been less than 24 hours

Pop Crave

@PopCrave

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Activist Ola Ojewumi recounts her experience at a Lizzo concert in 2017 where Lizzo and her team invited a man on stage after witnessing him trample her while she was sitting in her wheelchair.