26.3.13

Steph Swainston

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I don't read a lot of contemporary fantasy, but that won't stop me from proclaiming Steph Swainston as the all-conquering lord and m...
25.3.13

El Topo

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Jodorowsky is full of bullshit, but that doesn't mean his work is worthless. I loved The Incal not because it made any kind of sense (b...
22.3.13

The Female Eunuch

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Characterising oppression as 'castration' is the centrepiece of Greer's argument, and I think its sex-positive thrust is its mos...
18.3.13

The Drowned World

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As ever, what interests me most about this is the blasphemy. I love a bit of blasphemy, me. Through some rather unbelievable psychoscience, ...
16.3.13

Retromania

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When Simon Reynolds first started talking about not finding anything absolutely new in modern music, I didn't really know what he was ta...
11.3.13

2012 blind spot: Bat for Lashes - A Wall

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A "sophisticated blend of art-rock grandeur and synth-pop directness" is a nice concise way of describing The Haunted Man . Defin...
5.3.13

2012 blind spot: A-Trak & DJ Zinc feat. Natalie Storm - Like the Dancefloor (Shadow Child Remix)

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The arch bass-wobble, the time-stretched vocal, the synth wash... all tried and tested trak elements endlessly arranged and re-arranged in a...
18.2.13

iZombie

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I'm not au fait with every permutation of postmodern horror out there, but Buffy does hang heavily over this little comic. The series ...
17.2.13

Garden State

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I watched this at the impressionable age of 16, in a cinema on Fulham Road, ircc. I remember walking out stunned, thinking this was the film...