Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes Review
Corrupt politicians, liquor and Mid-West porches, references to suicide- classic Bright Eyes symbols are all here, but even in the depths of despair, he’s having a lot more fun with his back to a wall.
Review: The Bikeriders 2024
The Bikeriders attempts to rekindle the marriage of romance and reportage running through Danny Lyon’s decade defining photobook, but scuffs its majesty with a two dimensional plot.
Hit Man: How the actor becomes THE actor
This is a film which is very much performance and dialogue-led, and in this sense, it serves as the perfect introduction to Glen Powell: The Actor.
HOW DID WE GET HERE: The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift
What has happened to Taylor Swift? Where have all the choruses gone? Where’s the fun? I know it’s the Tortured Poet’s Department, but why am I being tortured?
Review: The Goat Horn (1972)
A folk tune rises above howling winds, lulling us into Metodi Andonov’s mesmerizing 1972 rape-revenge fable The Goat Horn…
New Show, Old Tricks - 3 Body Problem
A TV show about people agreeing constantly and working efficiently to tackle an impending threat of extinction might, on the surface, seem less appealing to a Netflix crowd, but nothing is less appealing than constantly swallowing nonsensical bullshit.
The Beekeeper Beat Me Up
The mere image of Jason Statham beat my ass the other day. Here’s what I remember from the experience.
HOW DID WE GET HERE: One More time - blink 182
There’s a line in this about being offended by the lyrics and it reminds me of how Mr Bean came out to complain about cancel culture in comedy.
Review: S@lTBURN (2023)
In Saltburn, Keoghan is an uninteresting black hole -seemingly by design- and you never get the sense he’s out of place.
HOW DID WE GET HERE: Homogenic - Björk
Germans make techno music. Australians only have Didgeridoos. Any music from Nigeria is likely to be outside of my taste range.
HOW DID WE GET HERE: 1989 – Taylor Swift
“I’m not really sure on what rules, if any, that I laid out when I decided to start doing these reviews…”
In Hindsight: Car Seat Headrest’s Teens of Denial (2016)
Teens of Denial demonstrates a ballsiness of the adamantium variety, if not always in lyrical content then in ambition and scope…
HOW DID WE GET HERE: Kid A - Radiohead
An unremarkable but ever-present aspect of modern life is lists…
HOW DID WE GET HERE: Panic! at the Disco -VIVA LAS VENGEANCE
“My hand hovering over the steel wire of an allegedly electrified fence”…
JPEGMAFIA/ Danny Brown: SCARING THE HOES
JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown deliver an irreverent, uncommercial glitch-hop record that sticks to its guns.
