You know what I like about life? It is a source of endless and amazing variety – sure there’s pain and loss and sadness but there’s also, hope, love and all kinds of very good stuff, a spectrum of human experience that finds expression in the work of these Continue Reading
Music
You’re a musical one Mr Grinch! First Tylor the Creator soundtrack song released
SNAPSHOT For their eighth fully animated feature, Illumination and Universal Pictures present “The Grinch,” based on Dr. Seuss’ beloved holiday classic. The Grinch tells the story of a cynical grump who goes on a mission to steal Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous Continue Reading
Now this is music #115: Aurora, Jodie Abacus, Pool, Rebecca & Fiona, Amanda Tenfjord
Life, love and all those less than ideal messy bits in-between. We all live them, struggle or dance through them and come to our own accommodation with them but sometimes it can feel like we’re the only ones caught in the midst of all the emotional back-and-forth. Not so, Continue Reading
Eurovision update: Bulgaria in, Australia decides … and more
It’s just 7 months to the middle of Eurovision – yes my number of days to … work could do with a little finessing – and while that may seem like a lifetime away, if history is any guide, we’ll be having glitter and glamour and fabulous tunes rained Continue Reading
Let your heart be light: It’s beginning to look like A Legendary Christmas
Christmas makes me happy. Very happy. And Christmas music makes me even happier. There is something ineffably beautiful and wondrous about it that makes me feel like absolutely everything is going to be OK; it may not be, but oh, it feels that way and that’s enough for me. Continue Reading
Onward into moody dystopia: Blade Runner 2049 continues on in comic book form
SNAPSHOT The comic series will continue to unravel the future-set continuity of the Blade Runner universe, picking things up after the events of the long-awaited 2017 movie sequel, director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which followed the exploits of replicant blade runner K (Ryan Gosling), whose circuitous existential crisis leads him into Continue Reading
Way before they were Yellow: Coldplay documentary A Head Full of Dreams
SNAPSHOT A Head Full of Dreams offers an in-depth and intimate portrait of the band’s spectacular rise from the backrooms of Camden pubs to selling out stadiums across the planet. The film is helmed by Mat Whitecross – director of Supersonic, the acclaimed 2016 Oasis documentary – who met the Continue Reading
Now this is music London: AJ Tracey, Nadia Rose, Girl Ray, S4U, Georgia
There are a few countries widely recognised as hotbeds of musical innovation, one of which is undeniably the UK from which has sprung major acts like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys to name just a few. If you thought for a moment, and for shame Continue Reading
Now this is music #114: Moses Sumney, half.alive, Wingtip, Phantastic Ferniture, Sasha
What an hilariously, alarmingly, freakishly contradictory mess life is. Were it as simple as some sections of pop culture would have us believe it is; but alas, it is not, and mired in the ups and downs, the regrets and hopes, the sadness and happiness of our lives, often Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Watch pop icons change over time
Nothing stays the dame for long in this fast-moving world of ours, and that truism applies to pop culture icons as much as anything or anyone else. Recognising this salient fact, LA-based artist and cartoonist Jeff Victor who describes himself on his Kickstarter page as a “huge pop culture Continue Reading