I knew what to expect when I walked into the Troxy music hall, somewhere in east London, to see Gentleman’s Dub Club.
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Snow in Midsummer
Gun shots. Blood smatters against a fluttering white flag. A young woman lay limp and lifeless. The execution is done. Returning their rifles to an upright position, three soldiers march toward the body. Without courtesy, the woman is hoisted to a sitting position. In a remarkable show of disrespect, one of the soldiers casually wields…
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On Ghosting
Ah, ghosting. Possibly one of the cruellest ways for a relationship to end – the complete and utter severance of relations by one person to the other. I do not mean the subtle fade away, in which conversations become more disparate and stunted. I mean full on ghosting, where the other person seems to disappear from…
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A Cure For Plot Holes
Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness is a clean break away from more family-friendly ventures, boasting terrific cinematography and a stellar performance from Dane DeHaan, but is ultimately let down by its own disappointing finale.
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On First Loves
My first love was the best and worst thing to have happened to me to date.
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Love in Hollywood
Romantic comedies. Ah, the genre we all have a soft spot for. We will proudly watch the classic When Harry Met Sally or Notting Hill, shamelessly imitating the famous orgasm scene in the diner or silently miming to ourselves ‘I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy…asking him to love me’, before bursting into tears.…
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Fifty Shades Blander
The uninspiring, unimaginative and unsexy expectations audiences set following Fifty Shades of Grey have unsurprisingly been met in this second instalment to the Fifty Shades trilogy. James Foley’s Fifty Shades Darker is a continuation of the first film’s sketchy plotline which serves only to link the film’s underwhelming and forgettable sex scenes.
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Problems with The Oscars, vol. 88
Back in 2006, arthouse filmmaker David Lynch launched a typically left-field Oscar campaign for Laura Dern, the lead in his new release Inland Empire. Lynch camped out by the side of a Hollywood intersection with a live cow and a sign bearing the words: ‘WITHOUT CHEESE THERE WOULDN’T BE AN INLAND EMPIRE’. He would later…
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The people with chronic pain who fall through the cracks in the NHS
Imagine being in so much pain that you never left the house unless you had to. Now imagine you couldn’t make that pain go away. The charity Pain UK estimates that 14 million people in Britain are suffering from chronic pain, defined medically as pain persisting longer than three months. Others put that number much higher.…
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Anti-Trump Pro-Love: Women’s March in London
From Grosvenor to Trafalgar Square, a march against Trump, with an estimated 100,000 people in attendance, occurred in London yesterday. For a march against something, the atmosphere of love and hope in the crowd was particularly striking. Yes, they were against Trump – but it was not a march of despair. The weather mirrored the…
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