Once upon a time in Canterbury…

Lots of regional music scenes have come and gone. Some we’ve heard of. We know that there were interesting things … More

Thresholds

We cross thresholds, we readers. Each book we read is entered through a portal, and marking those portals—projected onto the … More

With The Caine Mutiny, Humphrey Bogart continued his drift away from movie-star roles, playing a part in which his character … More

I’ve never paid particular attention to Nicholas Hawksmoor’s famous London churches, although I am familiar with some of them. I … More

Slayer’s fourth album, South of Heaven was released when their sound and status were well-established, and it was conceived as … More

There’s a kind of nostalgia for the Cold War, almost in the same way that British culture incorporates a nostalgia … More

A ‘silent’ comic, which is to say a wordless comic, relies on the grammar of sequential art. This is a … More

In our trawl through Humphrey Bogart’s oeuvre we’ve been sticking to the best known movies—he acted in over seventy films. … More

The experience of playing a narrative-focussed AAA game is getting progressively closer to the experience of watching a movie or … More

People whose names appear on albums are often not ‘professional musicians’ in the sense of someone who has honed their … More

A musician’s life is usually precarious, especially if you’re attempting to work as a featured artist. Llewyn Davis, as played … More

Behind their classically laid-out, commercially styled covers (complete with old-school colophons to tickle the collector’s fancy), the first two…

A rich, deep evocation of… Well, it’s something of a cliché to say ‘the movement of the earth’, or ‘geology’, … More

Humphrey Bogart reputedly occupied something of a lonely place among his Hollywood peers—although he had his good friends, Louise Brooks, … More