Film Review: “Dai Nipponjin” or “Big Man Japan” (2017), directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto is currently available in it’s entirety on YouTube...
This book focuses on Lady Byron (1792-1860), her daughter, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and the ways they were affected by Lord Byron..
Fiction: “The Return of The Space Gods” On an overcast, grey and shadow-less day a security drone buzzed high overhead,...
The final title sequence involved a lot of analogue post-work in the form of a sheet of reeded glass that emulated TV raster or low-resolution 8 Bit computer graphics
I sat at the back where it was coolest and surrounded by the monochrome collage of pictures of Old Soho that papered the walls at the rear of the cafe, staring unblinkingly at the unending stream of traffic outside and people walking lazily past....
Film Review: Extrait du Cahier Du Cinéma 1968 : J’ai eu le grand plaisir de voir le dernier chef-d’œuvre cinématographique...
Film Review: We’re not quite at the stage of the “no instrumentality” hinted at in the landmark and personal all-time...
Berlin compares Tolstoy with Maistre, a post-French Revolution, ultramontane Catholic, and extremely conservative thinker who thought Europe should return to the blind Catholicism and authoritarianism of the Dark Ages. He was a hedgehog.
Now, and perhaps even in that moment in the hospital ICU private ward, I like to think that perhaps he was casting his mind back to the early 1950's when he lived in New York, which, judging by photographs from his time there, must have been the time of his life...
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when I had the first stirrings of interest in Japan and Japanese culture.
Review: Brendan McCarthy, comic strip artist and co-creator of “Mad Max – Fury Road” has done a lot since I...
An annual ritual that we all endured as kids up until our teens was the dreaded castor oil purge.