Archive For The “Review” Category
“You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?” – Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime, but applicable to this movie in spades. Inception is the blockbuster of the summer and on a single viewing, well worth the attention. Hell, I may even see it again! Like Usual Suspects, Inception is a film [...]
This year has provided, as the chinese say, interesting times so far and it is with a sense of some relief that I turn my attention away from fulminating against the dumbing down of television, the sheer existential horror of living in a country governed by a thin lipped Etonian with a letterbox mouth and [...]
Even his most vehement detractors would concede that Martin Amis, on form, is one of the most brilliant writers we have. A master of the comic novel, and an inspiration to Will Self and Zadie Smith amongst countless others, he has also proved to be a provocative commentator; his views on our and other cultures [...]
Fabrica in Brighton is presenting 77 Million Paintings as part of Brighton Festival 2010. Brian Eno is this year’s Guest Artistic Director and this free exhibition is running until the end of May. The exhibition uses translucent and richly coloured abstract images, mainly hand drawn on 35mm slides, to form component elements that are almost [...]
So why didn’t I think of this! An idea so blindingly obvious that music lovers everywhere will be kicking themselves senseless. mflow takes the ‘follower’ paradigm from Twitter and applies it to music. The users get to publish a track, or an album, with a comment. Their followers can listen to the track and optionally [...]
