Barenboim: A View from the Bridge
Last week, Daniel Barenboim took to the Tate Modern Turbine Hall Bridge to give a one-off, all-Chopin concert with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Our wild-haired, roving music critic Paul Guest reports…
Browsing: The Culturist
In the Mood for Love: Yumeji’s Theme
He said, our path is not clear. I said, I must find a path without…
My Neighbour Totoro
Film critic and cult-ure vulture, Steve Thompson, turns his artistic eye to a Japanese cartoon, featuring no conflict, danger, violence or mutant insects. The man’s gone soft.
Marianne Faithfull: Blazing Away
Marianne Faithfull lived on a wall for almost two years, listening to the smack talk.…
Vanishing Point
Steve Thompson, film critic and cartoonist, continues his tour through weird and wacky cinematic territory, stopping off at the 1971 counter-cultural road movie, Vanishing Point.
Minnie Riperton: Can You Feel What I’m Saying?
Sex is in the mind; it is the product of a thousand memories and fleeting…
Sorry: Play It and Be Glad
“Play it and be glad,” instructs the front cover of a miniscule booklet entitled Rules and Hints for Playing the National Game. Miss York explores a somewhat forgotten pastime with a very British characteristic. Sorry…
The Pressure, Frankie Knuckles Remix
I’m not a religious person in the conventional sense, but I do believe that the…
Frankenstein
Over their customary post-performance pizza, Larry and Al Senter discuss the National Theatre’s Frankenstein, and Larry learns there’s more to this story than Hammer Horror…
Trust
“Trust me, I’m a cartoonist,” said Steve Thompson, the multitalented, multi-award dreaming writer, cartoonist and film critic, who casts his creative eye over Hal Hartley’s Trust, a slightly twisted comedy…
Bug
Continuing our film review series appraising underrated, lesser-known and downright crazy pictures old and new, Steve Thompson enters the feverish world of the 2006 horror film, Bug, from the director of The Exorcist.
The Playboy Opera House
Music critic Paul Guest visits The Royal Opera House to experience the latest performance to cause gasps of horror, shock and delight among West End audiences; the tragic tale of Anna Nicole Smith.