Live music
Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards at the Slaughtered Lamb
Not much of Absentee’s upbeat indie stylings have made it into Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards, but thankfully…
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Published articles
Movie
Sacro GRA
The Grande Raccordo Anulare, the ring road that encircles Rome, is the largest highway of its kind in…
By Joe Manners Lewis
Movie
The Boxtrolls
Just three movies in, and the talented folks at Laika have already made a name for themselves as…
By Joe Manners Lewis
Venice
Hungry Hearts
The opening sequence to Hungry Hearts is utterly charming. A single scene captured in one long shot, it…
By Joe Manners Lewis
Play
I Believe in Unicorns at Vaudeville
The stage dressing at the Vaudeville Theatre is pretty unassuming: books litter the boards in disorganised piles, and…
By Joe Manners Lewis
Movie
Into the Storm
The found footage subgenre is booming since the release of The Blair Witch Project in 1999, and now…
By Joe Manners Lewis
Movie
They Came Together
They Came Together is an unapologetic parody that does for romantic comedies exactly what Airplane! did for disaster…
By Joe Manners Lewis
Movie
Lucy
It’s said that human beings use only ten percent of their brains. Not by scientists mind you, but…
By Joe Manners Lewis
Album
Indiana – No Romeo
Nottingham-bred mother of two Lauren Henson’s profile is growing. As dark electronica songstress Indiana, she’s known for her…
By Joe Manners Lewis
News
Play enhances children’s development and happiness study reaffirms
A report into the positive repercussions of play in children has found that the act of playing can…
By Joe Manners Lewis