Album
Maxïmo Park – Stream of Life
Apparently "indie sleaze" is one of 2024’s trends, with the nostalgia cycle turning back its inevitable 20 years…
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Published articles
Movie
Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola has spent more than 40 years and an estimated $120 million of his own money…
By Mark Worgan
Live music
Yannis & The Yaw at Koko
Until his death in 2020, admiration for Tony Allen was something of a badge of honour for British…
By Mark Worgan
Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo is one of French literature’s great stories, and one adapted for the screen…
By Mark Worgan
Live music
LCD Soundsystem at All Points East 2024
James Murphy is a rare musician who is simultaneously understated and in your face. His band, LCD Soundsystem,…
By Mark Worgan
Live music
Bloc Party at Crystal Palace
In the summer of 2004, there was a Labour government with a whopping majority, the nation was cheering…
By Mark Worgan
Movie
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Like Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Costner is also debuted a partly self-funded passion project at this year's Cannes…
By Mark Worgan
Live music
Liam Gallagher plays Definitely Maybe in full at the O2 Arena
It is now 30 years since Liam Gallagher was rock’s enfant terrible – when, love him or hate…
By Mark Worgan
Cannes
Motel Destino
Motels have a cinematic reputation as providing a bolthole to drifters, ne’er do wells and those with sexual…
By Mark Worgan
Cannes
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light may be one of the final films to make its bow…
By Mark Worgan