Reviews

DIIV – ‘Is The Is Are’ Review

A junkie, a cliché, a hipster, a brat. Maybe a precociously talented songwriter, or maybe just a heroin-addled Kurt Cobain wannabe destined for failure....

Point Break – Film Review

For a lesson in how hard it is to make a fun, silly action movie watch the two incarnations of Point Break back-to-back. In...

Concussion – Film Review

When people describe films as “Oscar bait” this is the sort of movie they mean. A solid, but dry, drama, there something strained about...

A Bigger Splash – Film Review

Welcome to the worst possible holiday in the most beautiful place imaginable. Marianne (Tilda Swinton), a Bowie-esque rockstar, is enjoying mute recovery from throat...

Goosebumps – Film Review

If you were a child in the mid-90s then there’s a high chance you’ve read, or are at least familiar with, R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps...

Rihanna – ‘Anti’ Review

So much talk has preceded Rihanna’s eighth album that it’s left, now it’s finally here, with a lot of walk to walk. Opener ‘Consideration’...

‘Spotlight’ – Film Review

In 2001, a small group of journalists at The Boston Globe newspaper picked up a story about a paedophile priest whose crimes had been...

Sia – ‘This Is Acting’ Review

Camera-shy Australian Sia occupies a singular position as a hit pop songwriter who moonlights as a chart-topping artist in her own right. ‘This Is...

Bloc Party – ‘Hymns’ Review

Last November, Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke laid the blame for the recent departure of original members Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong on “someone...

Sunflower Bean – ‘Human Ceremony’ Review

On first look at Sunflower Bean, you might think Bob Dylan had dropped in on Debbie Harry and formed a band with Frank Zappa....
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