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unreliable narrator • vampire enthusiast • ✍🏽: Paste, AV Club, Little White Lies, Curzon, Polyester, gal-dem etc • 💌 [email protected] https://linktr.ee/nadirabegum

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nadira @nadirawrites.bsky.social · Sep 12

From Ground Zero is playing in cinemas this weekend. In an ideal world, this film wouldn’t have to exist. But it does, so I highly recommend you seek it out. my review for Little White Lies here: lwlies.com/reviews/stor...

From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza review – a disjointed but urgent…

A collection of 22 short films by Palestinian filmmakers captures the reality of life in Gaza since Israel's renewed invasion.

lwlies.com

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 27d

Our friends at Cinema For Gaza have announced their next fundraiser for Palestine, and it's a corker... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Ambika Mod and Daisy Ridley to star in Pride and Prejudice live reading fundraiser for Gaza

Nish Kumar, Jenna Coleman and Morfydd Clark will also feature in London event for Medical Aid for Palestinians

www.theguardian.com

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nadira @nadirawrites.bsky.social · Sep 12

that’s such a great sign!!

nadira @nadirawrites.bsky.social · Sep 12

From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza review – a disjointed but urgent…

A collection of 22 short films by Palestinian filmmakers captures the reality of life in Gaza since Israel's renewed invasion.

lwlies.com

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · Sep 9

And racial disparity tbqh

Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · Sep 9

i don't think you see the gender discrepancy in film criticism quite as glaringly as you do in annual film festival coverage

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nadira @nadirawrites.bsky.social · Sep 9

got into the LFF site at 10am on the dot and bought tickets for three people over the span of an hour. this is the closest I’ll ever get to feeling like Don Corleone

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · Aug 27

today is the 4th anniversary of launching my baby, blackfilmarchive.com 🫂

in celebration of this anniversary, i answer my most asked questions like “what is up with all the trauma in black film?” and “should sex be on screen?”

Who will solve Black cinema’s marketing crisis?

… and other questions in my inbox on the 4th anniversary of Black Film Archive.

blackfilmarchive.substack.com

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · Aug 12

The more our culture doubles down on the idea that arts criticism is unnecessary (and critics are the enemy), the stupider and less curious our world will become…

Devastating times.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Aug 19

I am fucking begging people to go to this website and do what it says and get rid of the AI summaries tenbluelinks.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 18

The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason Okundaye

We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

www.theguardian.com

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · Aug 10

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992)

Vanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · Aug 2

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

Tumblr poll from “lesbianalism”

Do you think you could take a werewolf?
Yes: 70.6%
No: 29.4%

In a fight?
Yes: 8.1%
No: 91.9%

Final results from 35,878 votes

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Kelli Boyle @kellixboyle.bsky.social · Jul 26

Anne Rice Immortal Universe portraits ok yay!! #InterviewWithTheVampire and #Talamasca panels start soon 🫶 #SDCC #SDCC2025 #iwtv

www.tvinsider.com/gallery/inte...

'Interview With the Vampire' & 'Talamasca' Stars Light up Our Comic-Con Studio (PHOTOS)

See Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and more stars of the Anne Rice Immortal Universe's SDCC portraits.

www.tvinsider.com

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nadira @nadirawrites.bsky.social · Jul 18

they’re calling it a Solvej Balle summer

nadira @nadirawrites.bsky.social · Jul 10

I love Clueless (1995) and how much it takes teenage girls seriously. wrote about it for Polyester 🎀: www.polyesterzine.com/features/cel...

nadira @nadirawrites.bsky.social · Jul 9

it begins!!!

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charlotte @tambourine.bsky.social · Jul 4

i have seen tourists eating sad fish & chips in the centre of London today so i want to give some advice on how to eat good fish & chips if you’re ever visiting the UK

a) never ever in the centre of a big city. it will never be good.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · Jul 4

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda

President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...

www.lrb.co.uk

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johnw60.bsky.social @johnw60.bsky.social · Jul 1

Trust the Telegraph are being brought in for questioning?

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · Jun 30

Avon & Somerset police tasered its own race relations advisor, harassing him twice. The officer was cleared. You’d think they’d focus on their own racism www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...