Five Songs to Download – November
Sky Ferreira - "I Blame Myself" American electropop singer Sky Ferreira has had quite a journey getting to her debut album. Still, Night Time, My Time has finally arrived after teaser singles for...
Category: Europe
The mesmerising existential crisis of “Suzanne”
Have you ever imagined just how powerful your name is? Both with and without it you are everything and nothing. It can mask and reveal as much about your parents as it can about your own soul....
Celebrity “Confessions”: Mischa Barton and AnnaLynne McCord, Trauma and Gossip
It is not news that the way celebrity culture treats young female celebrities (and older female celebrities, for that matter) is icky. There is the constant hounding of singers and models trying to...
LFF 2013 Dispatch 3: The Sacrament, Good Ol’ Freda, New World, The Congress
Masquerading as a “Vice” magazine documentary, Ti West’s latest film, “The Sacrament” makes chilling use of immersionist journalism to reimagine the “Jonestown Massacre” as a...
London Film Festival 2013 Dispatch 2: Ida, Sixteen, Of Good Report, The Fear
Anna lives the simple life of a novitiate in a Polish convent. Her meals are plain; her days are silent like the snow that frames her tranquil existence. Orphaned in World War 2 Anna knows only god...
Review: The Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2013
The 2013 Man Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday (15 October), which is somewhat exciting for prize list junkies and book nerds such as myself. Although I always find Man Booker day...
London Film Festival 2013 Dispatch 1: The Sarnos-A Life In Dirty Movies, The Bounceback, Blackwood, Drones.
“The Sarnos--A Life In Dirty Movies” isn’t really about dirty movies at all. The filmmakers have obviously learned a trick or two from their subject Joe Sarno on how to sell a film. As the...
The Past Lives On: Russian Homophobia and the Gulag
Russian actor Alexei Panin used to be mostly famous for overturning tables in restaurants when he’s in a bad mood. Or for the ugly custody battle he had with his ex-wife over their daughter. Or for...
Five Songs You Should Download
Once upon a time, it was relatively easy to find new music. You simply turned on the radio and listened until you found something you liked. Everyone was fixed onto the same monoculture. Nowadays,...
The Wild World of Moscow Real Estate
When you hear the phrase “real estate” you don’t commonly think “thriller plot.” Yet in Moscow, where prices are high, lawlessness in the private sector is rife, and the police are...