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Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Reinventing The Reel: The Grand Budapest Hotel

By Jay Sizemore

Film critic Jay Sizemore on why Wes Anderson’s latest is “easily the best film of 2014 so far”.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Reinventing the Reel: Why I Refuse to Watch Video Game Adaptations

By Jay Sizemore

Film critic Jay Sizemore is less than impressed with the trend of adapting video game franchises for the movie screen.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Reinventing the Reel: None Of The Above

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore casts his cynical eye across Hollywood’s sorry mid-March lineup… from a safe distance.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Reinventing the Reel: The Monuments Men

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore wonders whether George Clooney’s passion for his new project The Monuments Men proved to be its undoing.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Reinventing the Reel: Robocop

By Jay Sizemore

Our disappointed film critic Jay Sizemore gathers his thoughts on one of the worst attempts at a franchise revamp he has ever seen.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Reinventing the Reel: Nebraska

By Jay Sizemore

Alexander Payne’s Nebraska may not be a feel-good road trip movie, but Film Critic Jay Sizemore writes on why it’s a journey we all need to take.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Reinventing the Reel: Dallas Buyers Club

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore explains why there’s “hope to be found” in Jean-Marc VallÃ©e’s Dallas Buyers Club.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Reinventing the Reel: Her

By Jay Sizemore

“Her is the â€˜Fahrenheit 451â€™ of the iPhone age”, writes film critic Jay Sizemore about a film on human connection and what it really means.

Arts & Culture, Film, The Critics

Defining GRAVITY

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore delves deeper into what makes Gravity so great.

Arts & Culture, Film

Reinventing the Reel: The Wolf of Wall Street

By Jay Sizemore

Reviewed by Jay Sizemore If you want a picture to hang on the idea of everything that is wrong with America, look no further…

In the Magazine

A Word from the Editor

Don’t cry like a girl. Be a (wo)man.

Why holding up the women in our lives can help build a nation, in place of tearing it down.

Literature

This House is an African House

"This house is an African house./ This your body is an African womanâ€™s body..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

Shoots

"Sapling legs bend smoothly, power foot in place,/ her back, parallel to solid ground,/ makes her torso a table of support..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

A Dry Season Doctor in West Africa

"She presses her toes together. I will never marry, she says. Jamais dans cette vie! Where can I find a man like you?" By...

In the Issue

Property of a Sorceress

"She died under mango trees, under kola nut/ and avocado trees, her nose pressed to their roots,/ her hands buried in dead leaves, her...

Literature

What Took Us to War

"What took us to war has again begun,/ and what took us to war/ has opened its wide mouth/ again to confuse us." By...

Literature

Sometimes, I Close My Eyes

"sometimes, this is the way of the world,/ the simple, ordinary world, where things are/ sometimes too ordinary to matter. Sometimes,/ I close my...

Literature

Quarter to War

"The footfalls fading from the streets/ The trees departing from the avenues/ The sweat evaporating from the skin..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Literature

Transgendered

"Lagos is a chronicle of liquid geographies/ Swimming on every tongue..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Fiction

Sketches of my Mother

"The mother of my memories was elegant. She would not step out of the house without her trademark red lipstick and perfect hair. She...

Fiction

The Way of Meat

"Every dayâ€”any dayâ€”any one of us could be picked out for any reason, and we would be... Weâ€™d part like hair, pushing into the...

Fiction

Between Two Worlds

"Ursula spotted the three black students immediately. Everyone did. They could not be missed because they kept to themselves and apart from the rest...."...

Essays

Talking Gender

"In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women...

Essays

Unmasking Female Circumcision

"Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years." Gimel Samera looks...

Essays

Not Just A Phase

"...in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical...

Essays

The Birth of Bigotry

"The psychology of prejudice demands that we are each our own moral police". Maria Amir on the roots of bigotry and intolerance.

Fiction

The Score

"The person on the floor was unmistakeably dead. It looked like a woman; she couldnâ€™t be sure yet..." By Hawa Jande Golakai.