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What Netflix did next: time travel & hot Sam Rockwell

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s new releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s In The Shadow of the Moon (bloated, muddled) and Mr Right (Sam Rockwell, hot).

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

Huck: The Utopia Issue

Out now! — Our new issue’s about bolder, brighter worlds – built by people sick of the status quo.

  • Culture
  • Huck

Five decades into their career, Sparks are still flying

The Number One Band in Heaven — With two albums and two film projects on the way, the Mael Brothers are proving that five decades into their careers the best may still be ahead of them.

  • Music
  • Jeremy Allen

The Sundance breakout taking on gentrification

Tales of the city — Ahead of its UK release, the team behind The Last Black Man In San Francisco explain how they made this year’s indie breakout – a story about friendship, solitude and displacement.

  • Film
  • Josh Slater-Williams

What Netflix did next: the desperate plight of the tall girl

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s new releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s two subpar romcoms: Tall Girl and Back To School.

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

The film exploring masculinity and black British identity

The Last Tree — Shola Amoo’s second film follows a Nigerian-British foster child as he moves from the countryside to the city. To mark its release, the director and star Sam Adewunmi discuss their own experiences navigating identity and location.

  • Film
  • Kambole Campbell

How ’70s France fell in love with electronic music

Shock of the future — Nouvelle Vague frontman Marc Collin makes his directorial debut with The Shock Of Future: a filmic homage to the power of electronic music.

  • Film
  • Daniel Dylan Wray

John Waters: life lessons from the Prince Of Puke

A filthy mind — The renegade filmmaker on embracing weirdness, breaking taboos and taking acid in your seventies.

  • Books
  • Cian Traynor

What Netflix did next: sextuplets & Christina Milian

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s new releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s Falling Inn Love (cosy, nice) and Sextuplets (awful, stupid).

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

Brazil's indigenous people stand on the brink of disaster

Under threat — As fires rage across the Amazon and Bolsonaro tightens his grip on the country, Brazil’s indigenous people are facing an unprecedented threat to their future. Photographer and filmmaker Lucca Messer is exploring how their way of life is disappearing.

  • Reportage
  • Huck

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