So I recently got my turntable, and it has been awesome. As well as getting to hear old albums in the way they were meant to be heard, and picking up on all the cool new discs, it has become something of a mission of mine to get my favourite albums from this decade inContinue reading “The Vinyl Mission, vol. 1”
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A Cock and Bull Story
Michael Winterbottom (UK, 2006) Steve Coogan, eh? While any artist or craftsman hates being associated with one piece of work for his whole career, it seems he will never escape the long shadow cast by his Alan Partridge character, possibly the finest British comedy creation of the nineties. Let’s face it, he’s infinitely preferable toContinue reading “A Cock and Bull Story”
Slowly Getting Converted
As time goes on, my resistance to dubstep weakens. I never actually disliked it (I gave Boxcutter and Distance the dread download treatment, and liked what I heard), but was a tad sceptical. I was especially sceptcal of Burial; I just didn’t see what all the fuss was about, and certainly didn’t sympathise with theContinue reading “Slowly Getting Converted”
Garden State
Zach Braff (USA, 2004) I wasn’t all that hyped for this, to be honest. The second film I had seen in Film Four’s current ‘New Hollywood’ season, Garden State’s description as ‘written by, directed by and starring Zach Braff’ filled me with trepidation. It’s not that I don’t like him – he’s a perfectly fineContinue reading “Garden State”
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