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At the End of It s a Sin , Britain s Past and Present Collide
We need to talk about Jill and Valerie s beachfront summit
The last 10 minutes of
It s a Sin are the kind of TV which leave you staring into space for quite a while after they re over. Far from the unity of the Pink Palace days, the splintering fragments of the group end
It s a Sin on different trajectories. Roscoe and Jill follow Ritchie down to the Isle of Wight, holding the fort at a B&B and attempting to get through to their friend. The problem, of course, is that they ll never get through to his mum, the keeper of the landline.
It’s a good time for people to educate themselves.
Kali Uchis feels like “a lion”. Like many people this year, the seismic shift caused by the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent lockdowns sparked a period of deep introspection – except she thrives on the unfamiliar.
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26-year-old hitmaker Kali Uchis is reclining in bed in her LA home, her face covered by a Creme Korean face mask as we catch up for a soul-bearing conversation over the phone. “I feel the most powerful that I’ve ever felt, I feel confident in myself, in my body, in my spirit everything.” - “I’m not the same person I was when I went into the pandemic a lot has changed,” she explains. But, as she points out, this is something she has grown used to. “I already change a lot more than anybody else that I know. Talking to me one year and then talking to me the next is like talking to two different people because a lot of shit goes on in my life.”
“This project is. a really big step for me personally in connecting with my own community after having been a stealth trans woman for so long,” Ella Snyder says. “I feel like hiding that part of my identity really created a disconnect with me and my community, and this project is allowing me to explore artistically this new space that I was once too afraid to explore.” In the film, we see Ella shooting on set with trans supermodel Connie Fleming. “I feel like this is the first time I’ve ever really been taken seriously as an artist,” Ella says, “people that I look up to are now seeing me, and are interested in what I have to say and what I want to do, and they’re here to help me achieve those goals, so it’s really crazy, it’s really hard to believe.”
Ariana Grande is now engaged – posting five pics on her Insta last night of her
very blingy ring, and of course her new fiancée Dalton Gomez, captioning the post “forever n then some”. But who is Ari’s new fiancée, how long have they been together and when did they meet?
Ari was seen “making out with a mystery guy” at a bar back in February – 10 months ago. Then in late March, TMZ reported this man was actually Dalton Gomez. Other news outlets also reported Ariana was in a relationship with Dalton, but that the couple were keeping things private.
Reviewing Steve McQueen’s
Small Axe, a collection of films, for
The New Yorker, the masterful cultural critic Doreen St Félix writes: “One way to measure a filmmaker’s commitment to his subject is to look at the not so minor details, such as costumes, wigs, and food. If the paraphernalia of a people doesn’t feel forged but, rather, appears to have been lifted unmolested from observation or memory, or both, then the effect is immersion – the melding of reality with the world of the screen. Black folks haven’t often felt that rush.”
She finds in McQueen’s work “a kind of revolutionary attention… paid to the physical world of the characters” that is evident across scenes. It is in “head-wrapped women fussing over a bubbling vat of sunshine-yellow curry goat; [and in] men haggling over cards in true patois”. This, St Felix writes, demonstrates “the sincerity of the project’s creator, who is publicly claiming his place in a community, and who wants ever