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This month featuring: animated Minion slapstick, the profound sadness of Blue Heron, bleak Welsh decision-making and a Soviet drag-crone Baba Yaga (among others). Minions Monsters (2026), Pierre Coffin and Patrick Delage Perfectly cromulent non-stop action and slapstick that...
Gosh. I went to a lot of gigs in July, including a three-day residency at Alexandra Palace wearing all the hats that annoy my partner with impunity, a gull supervising a legend in Margate, and Kylie Minogue showing up with...
I was struck by a sudden fear of never seeing David Byrne play songs by Talking Heads again, and so made an ill-advised last-minute Twickets purchase to go to the Latitude Festival for the day on the Friday. It was...
A strange thing happened to me a little while ago. I was waiting for a verification code for a 2FA login, and it hadn’t arrived, so by chance I looked in the spam folder of my work email. About ten...
I know, I know it is mid-July and I am fashionably late with June s gig reviews, but it turns out when you spend the entire month running around venues across the country, it takes a moment to recover. This...
This month featuring: spooky basements, cursed wishes, alien conspiracy and plenty of John Waters and Divine (plus one of the queerest sci-fi cartoons in history). Repo Man (1984), Alex Cox – Bar Trash at Beer Merchant s Tap, Hackney Wick –...
At the weekend I spent a couple of hours at the lovely Walthamstow Trades Hall for the 17th Walthamstow International Film Festival, which was showing some 80-odd short movies over the course of a few hours. One of the things...
Urgh, I ve already had to live through two eras of They aren t going to be making Doctor Who anymore and it looks like we are just about to enter a third, with the announcement today that there won t be a...
In this month s round-up: Why sitting in the front row for Milton Jones is a high-risk health hazard, the unexpected joy of reconnecting with Super Furry Animals in a brutally sweltering O2 Academy Brixton, and how a post-pub wait for...
This month featuring: the perfect folk horror, a Brazilian mistake, Stevie Wonder stealing John Lennon s show and road-trip horror going off the rails (plus why the big light ruins David Lynch). Power to the People: John Yoko Live in...