I’ve never paid particular attention to Nicholas Hawksmoor’s famous London churches, although I am familiar with some of them. I…
No detour
Slayer’s fourth album, South of Heaven was released when their sound and status were well-established, and it was conceived as…
Unquestioned liberalism
There’s a kind of nostalgia for the Cold War, almost in the same way that British culture incorporates a nostalgia…
Built in the telling
A ‘silent’ comic, which is to say a wordless comic, relies on the grammar of sequential art. This is a…
Oozing style and charm
In our trawl through Humphrey Bogart’s oeuvre we’ve been sticking to the best known movies—he acted in over seventy films.…
Spending time
The experience of playing a narrative-focussed AAA game is getting progressively closer to the experience of watching a movie or…
Joyous celebration
People whose names appear on albums are often not ‘professional musicians’ in the sense of someone who has honed their…
Outside in the Village
A musician’s life is usually precarious, especially if you’re attempting to work as a featured artist. Llewyn Davis, as played…
A museum of Tom Kaczynski
Behind their classically laid-out, commercially styled covers (complete with old-school colophons to tickle the collector’s fancy), the first two…
A ritual of world-building
A rich, deep evocation of… Well, it’s something of a cliché to say ‘the movement of the earth’, or ‘geology’,…
A bleak disturbance
Humphrey Bogart reputedly occupied something of a lonely place among his Hollywood peers—although he had his good friends, Louise Brooks,…
Full marks
I hesitate to say too much about Karl Marx or Marxism in response to a book written by someone who…
Staring back
Darkness, an absence of light, is an obvious, unavoidable presence in the visual realm. We live in a world of…
Craft and language
Coen Brothers genre pieces are rarely without an ironic twist or two, a knowing nod to the implausibilities of the…
