There s a lot to love about
We Are Lady Parts. From the show s joyful cast to its addictive soundtrack, Channel 4 s new sitcom about a Muslim female punk band is essential viewing. And it s also long overdue.
Creator Nida Manzoor has been writing since she was a child Anything I wrote, my grandfather would keep it in a file and say You’ll be a great writer if you keep practising but it wasn t until Channel 4 commissioned the show that Nida was finally able to bring her story to life on screen, all these years later.
And of course,
We Are Lady Parts is also overdue on a much wider scale too. There’s no one cookie-cutter way of being a Muslim woman, says Nida, but you wouldn t necessarily know that just from watching British TV. And that s just one of the many reasons why we love this show.
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Mank? Who liked
Mank that much? This I had to hear. Crew and his new lady friend, Erica Marquis, a 27-year-old who works in financial technology in Chicago, joined me on a Zoom call to tell me the whole sordid tale. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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Last December, we followed each other on @letterboxd after posting five-star reviews of Mank. Five months later after 900 miles apart, we finally met up. Thank you Letterboxd and David Fincher! pic.twitter.com/xOuPUuPAa4 Ben Crew - Muppets Great Gatsby (@BenjaminCrew1) May 3, 2021
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Mank reviews?
Ben: We’d both been on Letterboxd for around a year. It’s a cool service where you log movies you watched and like other reviews. Obviously, 2020 was not a good year for dating, and we had both become very disillusioned with dating apps. We both in the back of our mind had this thought that what if you could match with someone based on movies? It wasn’t that we wante
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Carnforth Heritage Centre will finally re-open on Monday May 17.
Thursday, 13th May 2021, 12:30 pm
The award winning Heritage Centre is located within a working railway station, famously featured in the classic 1945 film ‘Brief Encounter’ directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
As you stand on Platform 1 with its vintage suitcases and railway posters, you can almost imagine the era when steam trains frequently passed through.
In 1945, David Lean stood with cameras running and film lights illuminating the winter nights, as he directed scenes for what is still considered to be one of the best British films of all time.
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I Hate Suzie
Watching Billie Piper in this intense and very adult black comedy, it’s amazing to recall that when she began her career as what used to be called a ‘teenybopper’ pop star, it was assumed she’d be a here-today-gone-tomorrow phenomenon.
In fact, she has repeatedly shown her talents as a brilliant actress, and she does so again here. Piper plays Suzie, a former child star whose career is upended when sexually explicit photos of her with a man who is definitely not her husband pop up online.
Watching Billie Piper (above) in this intense and very adult black comedy, it’s amazing to recall that when she began her career it was assumed she’d be here-today-gone-tomorrow
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