Umnia El-Neil is a British-Sudanese culture opinion writer and Shonda Rhimes TGIT Graduate.
With effortless charm, a pitch-perfect cast, and a liberating disregard for strict spatial continuity (all the better to disorient you), Nadia Conners has conjured magic here.
Deep Dive
In a nail-bitingly and frustratingly tense trio of episodes, we are not in Ferrix anymore. It’s One Year Later, and rebellion is not like the movies.
TV
With a brilliant sense of humour and an earnest spirit, this stylised story of the righteous path might be the dose of nail-bitingly cathartic weekly conflict you're looking for.
Film
At the heart of female fantasy lies the painful, drastic, desperate core.
Film
An immediate cult hit that's about to take over and revive local storytelling as global conversation -- gorey, funky and satisfying from start to finish.
Video
Watch the Paid Aficionados Extended Version Here Written and Recorded by Umnia El-Neil, Edited by Valeria Schumann.
Video
Festivals
The results are in, and they are HOT! We've travelled far and wide to bring you some brilliant gems from the festival.
Fashion
In a tenuous era of cultural history, some divas just can't be silenced.
Film
A Sundance 2024 Official Selection and a Peccadillo Pictures release—I am absolutely, unadulteratedly in love with this film.
Festivals
You're always a little bit scared, but you're never deterred.
Film
Adapted from "Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio", James McArdle shines in the role of Edward, a man who struggles to find his voice or backbone, weighed down by fear and unable to assert his own agency.