Fast and Furiosa - Mad Max: Fury Road - The Review
"The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of VCRs, ruined dreams... But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max."Â To understand who he was, you have...
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Theatre Review: Death of a Salesman, RSC 'Superb, Extraordinary'
Death of a Salesman is a beautiful play and The RSC version, now transferred to the West End, is a beautiful production that shows this Arthur Miller classic at its very best. Arthur Miller's Willy...
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Giffords Circus - The First Ten Years, Book Review
In October 1999, Nell Gifford was invited to give a talk at the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival the following May. She suggested that they book her circus and gave them a glowing description: "There will...
View ArticlePoetry Changes Lives - A Different Kind of Therapy
One big downside of trauma and depression is that you come out of it feeling like roadkill. To give up a long standing depression is to have a significant part of your life abruptly removed. No wonder...
View ArticleThe Art of Growing Old Disgracefully
I have a birthday this week. Not THE birthday, just A Birthday. I want to celebrate my birthday in the manner I've always celebrated by birthdays. Dancing in a nightclub until I can't feel my feet for...
View ArticleCrisis On The Cobbles: A Relationship on the Rocks
"My name is Martyn Hett, and I am a Coronation Street superfan." They say the first step on the road to recovery is admitting you have a problem, but unlike my peers, I have never seen my fandom as...
View ArticleMaking the Acting Last
Some people think I'm a dreadful actor. And they are right. Mercifully some people think I'm rather good, and, of course, they are right too. The point here is that acting is never something that can...
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The Popbitch Guide To Eurovision 2015
Eurovision can be a confusing thing. If it's not Balkan astronauts moonwalking around the stage while rapping in Montenegrin, it's Nordic monsters rocking out, Romanian vampires warbling in falsetto or...
View ArticleBig Mouth Strikes Again
From the wonky opening that brought you "Fuck you Star Trek fans" and "Phwooar, Princess Leia", comes this... "Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the...
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Meet The Artist: Joe Webb
Hang-Up travelled to sunny Brighton this week to meet up with the man behind our upcoming exhibition 'Sweet Armageddon': Mr Joe Webb. The artist took us around his favourite vintage book stores and...
View ArticleMad Men: The Don-A-Lisa Smile
I was one of the ones who fell for it. What an arc, I thought - that enigmatic smile at the top of the cliffs in Esalen on the Big Sur, California. Don Draper has finally evolved. But then my husband...
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Speaking Power to Truth - John Keane
John Keane may have only been an official war artist for a matter of days when he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to record images from the Gulf War of August 1990. Yet, war, conflict and...
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Gold From Base Metal
Credit: Chris Hoare The recognition of British Asian arts couldn't have been more high profile or significant when Jude Kelly and the team at Southbank Centre decided to create an entire festival...
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Tinie Tempah 'Found' at MTV's Staying Alive Gala Supporting Fight Against HIV!
Remember in the 80's when aids and HIV campaigns were everywhere? When the overriding message for school kids, lusty teenagers and adults was wear a condom and safe sex. Well, guess what, its still a...
View ArticleThe Kardashians And Bruce Jenner Deserve Nothing But Praise For Their 'About...
'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' first aired in 2009. In the six years since, there have been 10 seasons, over 140 episodes and countless spin-offs. Kendall and Kylie, the youngest of the...
View ArticleMad Men: Don Draper's Struggle With Estrangement
There are hundreds of writers currently penning articles about Mad Men, the hit AMC TV series. Over the seasons, it has uniquely threaded together commentary from disparate disciplines - interior...
View ArticleDespite Popular Stupidity, Coleen Nolan Did Not Compare Gay Rights to ISIS
I remember the last time I watched Loose Women, the day was a rainy one, I was flicking through the channels and found myself viewing a bunch of middle aged women sat at a table pretending they knew...
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Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor Stars in Everyman, National Theatre
When people ask me for recommendations on shows to see, I nearly always reply with "well, what do you like?" Because theatre is always horses for courses. Maybe you like Shakespeare, maybe you don't....
View ArticleRadio 1 - Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Remember the day you got your exam results? Remember all that emotion in one moment? Some people celebrating, some crying. It felt like your whole life depended on those results, but can you remember...
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'Flatgate': Why I Wore Flats on the Red Carpet in Cannes
Image credit: Samantha Baines Should women be forced to wear high heels to premieres? If you have been following the goings on at the Cannes Film Festival this week you will have heard about...
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