Doctor Who: About Time

I vowed to my brother, that as much as I liked previous doctors, the next Doctor either had to be an ethnic minority and / or a woman, otherwise I would not be watching it. Doctor Who should be a reflection of our world and society….

Vanity Fair: Humbugs, Fools and Othered Visions

Based on the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair is set against Victorian London and the Napoleonic Wars, following Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke) in her attempt to elevate herself out of poverty into English High Society. It’s “a vain, wicked, foolish place” narrates Michael Palin,…

BlacKkKlansman: Rebirth Of A Nation

Based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by the real Ron Stallworth, co-written and directed by Spike Lee (She Gotta Have It), and co-produced by Jordan Peele (Get Out), BlacKkKlansman offers an insight at race relations in America today in 2018 and back in the 1970s, and…