Searching For Sugarman, Film Review.
How often is it that you get a documentary, the content of which seems so far out, so miraculously implausible that it leaves you thinking either a) perhaps the director has exhibited a little too much artistic More...
Classic Film– Audition (Takashi Miike)
Consider for a moment a typical romantic comedy—let’s take You’ve Got Mail for the sake of argument. Now, imagine if it were to be forced at gunpoint into relations with the always delightful matriarch of More...
The Room, Film Screening At FACT.
For a film lauded as the Citizen Kane of bad movies it’s perhaps no surprise that FACT’s much anticipated screening of The Room drummed up an audience of devotees as keenly obsessive as any you’re ever likely More...
Killer Joe. Film Review.
Uncompromising— my word of choice in what will no doubt be a fruitless effort to describe the unhinged ferocity of William Friedkin’s latest cinematic opus, Killer Joe. Adapted from the Tracy Letts stage More...
Naked by Mike Leigh, Classic Film Review.
Despite the lengths many of us are willing to go to prevent the onset of revision and other exam related traumas, perhaps the idea of enjoying some stark, social-realist cinema doesn’t quite top your lengthy list More...
Pulled Apart By Horses. Gig Review. Club Academy, Manchester.
L.S. Media Rating **** For those of you concerned that the post-hardcore scene nowadays suffers a distinct lack of fraternity—not to mention support for the elevated-hand-slap—look no further than Leeds quartet More...
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins. Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.
The pressure was most certainly on for King Creosote and Jon Hopkins, appearing before the sold out Capstone theatre and understandably so. Released to widespread critical acclaim, last year’s Diamond Mine fought More...
Shame- Film Review
Steve McQueen makes a solid return to the big screen with this year’s Shame, the haunting story of a life afflicted by addiction. Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a handsome, wealthy New Yorker—his ordered public More...
X Factor loses four million viewers-the decline of reality television?
After drawing the eighth season of ITV1’s X Factor to a close, the peak audience for the 2 hour finale plummeted by over 4 million. Standing at 15.5 million viewers against the 19.4 million who tuned in to 2010’s More...
“Lost” Kerouac First Novel Published; The Writer – Promethean or Scholar?
Beat icon Jack Kerouac’s first literary opus is finally to be published in its entirety, no more than 70 years after its initial conception. Previously believed “lost” the whimsically titled The Sea Is My More...