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“A manic farce, careening at a million miles an hour”: Marty Supreme review

Motormouth Marty Mauser is a grade-A shit heel. A 1950s hustler with a tommy gun delivery who won’t take no for an answer. He’s a lithe, wiry, fuck stick, spidering his way through New York city avenues and alleyways, dive bars and flea pits to...

“A story that needs to be told and re-told by the hopeful to the hopeless”: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings)

With the anniversary theater run of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy being complete, I have found myself in conversation about The Two Towers again. In the year 2026, the second installment of Peter Jackson’s epic Tolkien adaptation is more...

Break out of your musical rut: how to discover new music (even if you feel stuck in your ways)

There's an odd moment that hits somewhere in your 30s or 40s when you realise you've been listening to the same Beautiful South albums for 20 years. Not because Blue Is The Colour isn't brilliant - it absolutely is - but because, at some point, you...

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