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Outside The Box May 2025
The big news is that someone has finally finished Mad Men, but if you're looking for some more recent TV, we've got that too. We chat about Poker Fac…
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Rated or Dated: La Haine (1995)
A film about racial tensions, police violence and disaffected youth? And this might be dated, you say? OK, probably not, but join us anyway as we tal…
1 year, 1 month ago
Sara Harrak and Leah Harvey take up some space
When writer and director Sara Harrak got back into 5-a-side as an adult, she became obsessed, which led to her short film, Solers United. Starring L…
1 year, 1 month ago
Bonnie Tsui On Muscle
Journalist, author and life-long athlete Bonnie Tsui is fascinated by muscle: how it looks; what it does, and how we think about it. Her curiosity l…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Bush Telegraph: No poo-ing on the slide please
Should Labour be addressing immigration? Should men be mammographers? Does anyone fancy being imprisoned in the Jorvik Viking Centre? Jen and Hannah…
1 year, 1 month ago
Rated or Dated: Gladiator (2000)
Ridley Scott’s epic regeneration of the swords and sandals genre made megastars out of Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix and bagged a whole load of m…
1 year, 1 month ago
Laura Bates on the new age of sexism
Feminist writer, campaigner, and one of Standard Issue’s firm favourites, Laura Bates’s latest non-fiction is called The New Age of Sexism: How the A…
1 year, 1 month ago
Flicking #61: Challengers
It’s game, set and love matches in our Yosra’s pick of 2024 films, as she, Mick and Hannah watch Luca Guadagnino’s sweaty tale of rivalry on and off …
1 year, 1 month ago
The Bush Telegraph: You'd think, right?
There’s a whole load of ‘but why the feck isn’t that already happening?’ in Hannah and Mick’s look at the news this week, as they take in nudificatio…
1 year, 1 month ago
Rated or Dated: Look Who’s Talking (1990)
Director Amy Heckerling is known for films centred on the female experience, but how feminist is a film about a woman narrated by an actual man-baby?…
1 year, 1 month ago