by Hannah Kane | Dec 6, 2013 | Culture
★★★★☆ At this time of year, with the consumer melee in full throttle – people stampeding over each other to get the best December deals on the high street, magazines (including us) luring you in with mouth-watering gift-buying features, and every shop in the...
by Hannah Kane | Dec 5, 2013 | Culture
★★★☆☆ Henry V, Act 4, Scene 7. The King of England, engaged in the midst of a bloody battle with France, strides onto the stage with his nobles in tow, having just discovered that, against all codes of military conduct, the French troops have murdered the group of...
by Hannah Kane | Dec 4, 2013 | Culture
Keep your ear on the gutsy blues-rock from this fierce Californian pair Distortion, daisy-dukes and raw attitude; Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards are Deap Vally. “We’re inspired by hotties, giant sunfish and glam rock,” say the Californian duo, who...
by Hannah Kane | Nov 26, 2013 | Culture
Our must-watch playlist of the best music docs to date Those of you who watched the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special (and apparently there were over 10 million of us) may be feeling a little nostalgic. One of the programme’s enduring charms is that fact that...
by Hannah Kane | Nov 20, 2013 | Culture
Joyce’s popular book wins out with substance over style There is a lot to be said for simply-written prose. As my very favourite writer, Charles Bukowski, once said, “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple...
by Vernon Ward | Nov 15, 2013 | Culture
★★★★☆ “I want girls, gold and guns.” Meet John Milius, a screenwriter with the ink of ‘Nam flowing through his veins and the battle cry of war running through his soul. This cigar chomping, self-assured bear of a man managed to ‘break’ Hollywood before any of his...
