Images of agents carrying out boxes under a federal warrant played across news feeds-as spectacle and warning in equal measure. For me, those moments replayed a darkness I knew intimately: the morning of November 28, 2007, when FBI agents stormed my own home in Maryland and office at Fort McNair in DC on the National Defense University campus, searching and seizing everything from books to family photos.
Relay is not the kind of film we see much of anymore, and it's all the better for it. It's a love letter to analog, heavily featuring record players, phone calls, and snail mail - but it's not just paying lip service. It builds its central conceit on the shoulders of the '70s thrillers that thrive in paranoia, and uses a piece of bygone tech to enhance its narrative.
Izzy Vine disclosed that she reported unacceptable comments made by a colleague, including labeling a rape victim as a 'slut,' leading to her suing the Met Police after its inadequate response.