Hate Crime: Why Censors Are Right to Ban the Anti-Semitic Horror
Hate Crime, a film about of a Jewish family recording their youngest son's birthday celebrations on video when their home invaded by a bunch of neo-Nazis high on crystal-meth, has been given the...
View ArticleDementia: No Hollywood Ending For Anyone
Forget the dish of the day - lightly cured hake on a bed of wilted seaweed with a shrimp and anchovy butter sauce, if you're wondering - what's the disease of the day? From Soho House to The Polo...
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The Glasgow Film Festival 2015: A Force to be Reckoned With
This year's Glasgow Film Festival again confirmed that one of the best cities in the UK has one of the best film festivals. Now in its 11th year, the festival drew to a close on Sunday evening with...
View ArticleWhy Women Over Fifty Are Not Dead #actforchange
When I first decided to write this article I approached a handful of national newspapers and was told flat out that if I wanted to speak out on gender equality then I should find a woman and get her to...
View ArticleMANGEL'd: The Accidental Fame of an Anarchist OR How an Aussie Soap Character...
Hold onto your hats. The UK is about to be thrown into a retro-stupor of 'mullets', 'eskies', 'snags', 'chooks', 'utes' and singing mechanics. Yep, 'Neighbours', that Cinémavérité style (ok reality TV...
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The Indian Queen: The Last and Most Profound Opera by Purcell at the ENO
When everybody is trying to understand today how Jihadi John made the transition from a shy nice kid to a cold merciless killer, music composer Purcell and playwriter John Dryden already attempted to...
View ArticleThe Big Bang Theory TV Show Proves Women Belong in Science
I have been watching The Big Bang Theory on television for a number of years now, and although I probably should have stood for 'girl power', I would say that none of the female roles had any...
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Spring 2015 History Book Bonanza: David McCullough, Erik Larson & Matthew Pearl
Do you devour history and historical fiction books? Then you're in for a feast in the next few months, as some of the most talented writers in these genres unveil their latest work. First up is...
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The Magical Underworld of Bulgarian Author Ludmila Filipova
The Devil's Throat Cave, in southern Bulgaria, is, according to legend, the route used by Orpheus - the legendary Thracian musician and poet - to reach the Hades Underworld, where he sought to retrieve...
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Is the Southbank Centre Right to Exclude Scotland From Its Exhibition on...
Costume designed for Meryl Streep in 'The Iron Lady', 2011. The big new exhibition at the Southbank Centre in London "History is Now"...
View ArticleOn The Sad Demise of the Record Shop
Two weeks ago, one of my favourite record shops, Counter Culture in High Wycombe, became the latest to close its doors - albeit, hopefully, temporarily due to the lease coming to an end. It may have...
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Tales From the Middle of Nowhere Vol 3: The Good, the Bad and the Bubbly...
Yes Mods And Rockers. How long has it been... three... four years? Too long? Not long enough? I'd say just about right myself. Time to top up the air miles, clear the throat and get on your dancing...
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Tales From the Middle of Nowhere Vol 3: The Good, the Bad and the Bubbly...
Yes Mods And Rockers. How long has it been... three... four years? Too long? Not long enough? I'd say just about right myself. Time to top up the air miles, clear the throat and get on your dancing...
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Tales From the Middle of Nowhere Vol 3: The Good, the Bad and the Bubbly...
Yes Mods And Rockers. How long has it been... three... four years? Too long? Not long enough? I'd say just about right myself. Time to top up the air miles, clear the throat and get on your dancing...
View ArticleCelebrating Women Composers on International Women's Day
Here's a question: can you name me five female writers from history? Of course you can: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf... OK, next question. Can you name me...
View ArticleThe Voice 2015 The Battles Show Two
The first round of battles is now over, gone, finished. The remaining acts, (of which Team Midas have five) move on to next weeks knock out round. For the rest, the tension and stress is just about to...
View ArticleBBC Eurovision Selection - Time for Power to the People
Late winter, early spring across Europe and Saturday night audiences huddle up to watch their national broadcasters to choose their singer and song for Europe. From Sweden's six-week Melodifestivalen...
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The National Gallery Opens a Major Impressionist Art Exhibition
Inventing Impressionism at the National Gallery is an enjoyable, romantic exhibition on Impressionism that showcases over 85 works from this popular period of art. Monets and Renoirs hang alongside...
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'The Apprentice' Auditions Are Underway - My View
With the auditions for series 11 of the BBC's The Apprentice upon us, I have been approached by loads of auditionees asking for the inside scoop on the track to success. Rather than answer all their...
View ArticleThe Duke of Burgundy - The Review
The Duke of Burgundy is quite unlike any film I have seen. Inspired by the works of Jess Franco and assorted other European filmmakers, director Peter Strickland, the brains behind Berberian Sound...
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