Halloween is just around the corner now, and here at The Panoptic, we are ready to shock you with the variety of music that we’ve been jamming out to. This week we feature songs by Joji, The Tings Tings and Parcels. Enjoy!
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Review: I’m Not Running (National Theatre)
David Hare’s latest play “I’m Not Running” lacks his characteristic wit, instead subjecting its audience to a dull and confused evening of fantasy politics.
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Review: I’m a Phoenix, Bitch (Battersea Arts Centre)
Legendary performance artist Bryony Kimmings returns with a brave and exhilerating solo show examining her recovery from postnatal breakdown.
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Singles of the Week
After our extended summer break, we’re back with a vengeance. Check out what singles have been getting the Panoptic team grooving to recently with a FIFA tune, a lovely little piece by dodie, and shift in style by LOYAL, all featuring this week.
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Review: The Malady Of Death (The Barbican)
The Malady of Death, Alice Birch and Katie Mitchell’s arresting new piece of Live Cinema, arrives at the Barbican and leaves a striking impression.
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London Film Festival 2018: Assassination Nation
Not quite softcore exploitation horror but not quite a rallying feminist cry either, Sam Levinson’s femme-fatale-led piece fails to pull out all the stops as promised – mostly because it doesn’t seem to know where the stops are in the first place.
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Nine Alternative Theatre Openings for October
Nine of the weirdest, most exciting shows opening in London this October, as chosen by our Theatre Editor.
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London Film Festival 2018: Border
True to its tagline, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s new screenplay is indeed “a love story unlike any other” in certain senses – but on the other side of the coin, it is a wholly predictable and often misguided whodunit thriller just like every other.
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London Film Festival 2018: May The Devil Take You
Too many cooks spoil the broth, and so do too many clichés – May The Devil Take You is brilliant on occasion, but mostly plays out as an inane, muddled collection of multicultural jumpscare ideas connected by a thinly-drawn plot.
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London Film Festival 2018: School’s Out
Loaded with enough intrigue to make you think yourself into a corner, School’s Out ramps up the dread at every turn, up to its (literally) explosive climax.
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