Thanks to lurid tales of 1960’s A-list liaisons with Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Jimi Hendrix and more, last year’s PP Arnold autobiography won substantial attention for Swinging London’s forgotten Queen of Soul.
After losing her best friend in a mysterious tragedy, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) has put her career aspirations on ice. Instead she spends her nights drawing in sexual predators by pretending to be drunk and then dispensing her own form of justice.
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Promising Young Woman is a wolf in sheep’s clothing; a revenge drama that looks like a romcom. Don’t be fooled by the heightened girly colours or high-gloss production values there is molten fury running through the hot-pink veins of Emerald Fennell’s debut feature and, deeper down, grief for women who have lost so much and stand to lose even more. The antagonist here is not so much a single character, as it is broad social attitudes towards sexual violence against women. Fennell’s greatest move is to mount genre storytelling atop sincere emotional undercurrents which build to a crashing wave by the finale.
What’s it like to be a drum and bass fan in New Zealand as the rest of the world still struggles to contain a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic?
That’s the question UKF asked me to answer for the worldwide drum and bass community and hopefully let you experience vicariously the current rave atmosphere in one of the few places in the world lucky enough to do so without restriction.
After attending and performing at a number of club nights and doofs over the period of a tumultuous 2020, everyone I spoke to said it was a surreal experience to be partying while knowing our global brethren were not as fortunate.