Simon Reynolds talks about “artists as portals” in The Guardian, specifically referring to the NME’s “Portrait Of The Artist As A Consumer” column of yore. This kind of thing is still popular – Pitchfork’s &#[…]

Two recent results from the South African Vodacom Second Division:
Young Pirates 2 Real Madrid (not that Real Madrid) 26
Namaqua Stars 50 Kakamus Cosmos 0
Extraordinarily, the South African FA is suspicious, and is investigating. They’ve alrea[…]

I am writing a piece for a market research mag on the current “hottest thinkers” that industry people like to namecheck. Inevitably many of these people are as much derided as loved, so I decided to ‘crowdsource’ a list of the[…]

Oi writers! Do you want to co-write a play? Then Resonance FM has a job for you: “to tweet the thoughts, exchanges and reactions of these characters over a period of two weeks. They will then fashion a script from the material, and record the p[…]

Eli, Mark and Marianna talk false wisdom, regrets, identity and politics.

Music videos: what a pile of shit, eh? Well, not always, obviously but more often than not they’re a cheap set of cliches thrown together for a song that’s not that far off that description and generally rubbish and boring, the only distr[…]

Like most Clint Eastwood films, Gran Torino takes its time. It never feels rushed, though unlike say Changeling it does not feel overlong. Perhaps the difference is Clint hamming it up infront of the camera, no matter how craggy (and he is craggy alr[…]

They say the proof of the pudding is in the eating, but in this case, the proof of the pudding is in the LISTENING. Because this is a show about puddings, and you have to listen to it to get any nutritional value out of it at all.
Nuncle Carsmile Ste[…]

Duplicity: aka an agent from MI6 and an Agent from the CIA. When They Met it was Murder.
There are certain names which should never be used for films. Anything that comes in a bit too universal, a bit too non-descript, will doom your project. Steer c[…]

“No jokes, no messin’, we’ll teach you a lesson, a state of confusion to keep you all guessin’!”
Wholesome family entertainers Ant (PJ) and Dec (Duncan) have come a long way since that terrible (but thankfully fictional)[…]