17.3.14

Dotter of her Father's Eyes

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This comic raised eyebrows by winning the 2012 Costa Biography Award. I had heard from comics enthusiasts that it was tame and boring, and t...
9.3.14

Byzantium

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Gemma Arterton says she signed up to do the film because she was interested in the mother-daughter relationship and because of its feminist ...
1.3.14

Girls

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Should forewarn, I've only seen up to the end of season two (the box-set was bought at Christmas for my girlfriend, and we are both very...
16.2.14

12 Years a Slave

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I watched this about a month ago and only now do I find the time to jot down some notes: Post-cinema trip discussions touched on how littl...
12.1.14

Favourite Songs of 2013 (Part 2)

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Part 1 is over here . 15. Friction & Skream feat. Scrufizzer, P Money & Riko Dan - Kingpin Three generations of grime MCs on a t...

Aldebaran

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A Franco-Belgian science-fiction comic with some very impressive line art, particularly when it comes to the fantastical alien creatures and...
7.1.14

The Consequences of Love

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A great article on the film here highlighting something I didn't quite latch onto when watching: how adolescent the 50-year-old is - ho...
31.12.13

Favourite Songs of 2013 (Part 1)

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First part of my annual rundown of favourite music listened to this year, along with some attempts at justification for it. Usual rules appl...
30.12.13

The Red Shoes

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The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale concerns a spoiled girl who puts shoes and parties above duty to family and God, and is punished by ...