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“A high-voltage socket of pure, unadulterated 1980s chaos”: Rik Mayall: Magnificent B’Stard review

To watch Sky Documentaries’ Rik Mayall: Magnificent B’Stard is to plug your wet brain directly into a high-voltage socket of pure, unadulterated 1980s chaos, only to realise with a sickening jolt that modern culture has completely lost its...

Great Adaptations: Alias Grace on screen

This month, over at Five Books For, we've been looking at books that reimagine the Victorians - a selection of modern novels that revisit the nineteenth century from fresh and often unexpected perspectives. Rather than presenting the polished,...

“Completely deranged and surprisingly tender”: Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed review

When people don’t trust cops, I get it. Remind me to tell you all about the cop who tried to bust me for “underage drinking” at age nineteen, when I’d merely been enjoying an Arizona Iced Tea in a friend’s car. Still, sometimes you do kind...

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