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…
Browsing: The Culturist
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.
The Phantom Tollbooth
In the first of a new film review series appraising underrated, esoteric and downright crazy…
Little Opera House on the Prairie
A breakout movement from the world of opera has emerged from the most unlikely of places; in the back room of a pub in North London. Music critic Paul Guest dishes the dirt on the hottest new opera this side of Covent Garden…
New Kids on the Block
Saturday night in the middle of January. Possibly one of least likely nights of the…
Romancing the Stone
BBC4 is fast becoming my headline TV channel. As a mine for all things cultural,…
Juan Diego Flórez and the Seven Encores
Seven encores. Seven. Encores. That is how much of a fuss this Peruvian born, rather…
Barbarella Forever
Jane Fonda as Barbarella is one of the enduring icons of 20th century cinema. As a young filmmaker in 1968, Paul Joyce was tasked with documenting the happenings on and around the set of that legendary psychedelic sci-fi romp…
Amphibians
As theatrical subject matter goes, competitive swimming isn’t a well-trodden path. Perhaps that’s the draw…
The Cats Meet Show
The legendary Delhi journalist, culture critic and volatile genius, Rahnam Pachry, ventures into trendy Dalston to visit a multi-platform arts event that has taken London’s cultural scene by the scruff of its neck; The Cats Meet Show…
Storytelling in Stepney
Any visitor to Stepney Green might scuttle past 109 Mile End Road and pay not…