Unlike the 1980’s dancical Shag, this years attempt at redoing the Fame formula Camp revels in the dual meaning of its title. Yes, this may ostensiably be a teen movie set in a summer camp, but this is a theatrical summer camp. It is certainly […]

RYAN ADAMS – “SO ALIVE”
another year, another handful of ryan adams releases. now, say what you will about the whiskeytown records (i’ll say they were mostly patchy), but they did hint at, if nothing else, an individual voice.[…]

Tracer Hand, newly arrived in London, eats pizza with me in Chinatown, and tells of the Mexican restaurants in New York City which are run and staffed by the Chinese. I approve, obv – at least if vice versa is established also, soon (and all ot[…]

It was the major cultural fashion immediately before Romanticism: big mistake. Two-and-a-half centuries later, the look of the 18th century pretty remains the default setting for “datedness”. The Classical Revival buildings, the flouncy c[…]

Space Jerky!
The opening montage of The American Astronaut, after our hero’s bumpy landing on Ceres in his railroad spacecraft, is of him fixing up everything that’s fallen down, intercut with dry-shaving his whiskers off, tidying up his […]

I’m sure I’d make a terrible barman, and I’m sure my first night on the job would be a disaster, but I’m also sure I’d be nowhere near as bizarrely inept as the girl who served me after work last night. ‘I’d […]

The Essential Human Torch
Is this the most oxymoronic comic title ever? Was there a less essential Marvel superhero title in the so-called Silver Age of the ’60s? I often forget that the Torch even had a solo career. The odd good villain does s[…]

Battered potato pizza Wellington – or BPP en croute, if you forget which side actually triumphed at Waterloo. The freedom to imagine a dish like this may even be the reason the battle was fought.[…]

Gutterbreakz: good new music blog, says (probably rightly) that the Melody Maker was the paper of record back in the turn-of-the-90s-day, though I don’t remember its dance music coverage being any cop, or any any until that fantastic Damascene […]

So I’m at our other site and a colleague of mine, knowing I like films, said did you see Heartlands? Excited to hear I had we then went on a bit of a mutual appreciation bender for this sorely under seen film of earlier this year. (Alex Thompso[…]