Blue Ruin Dwight (Macon Blair) looks like he’s neither slept or shaved since whatever horrific thing happened, happened. He sleeps in his rusty car, takes baths in other people’s houses and seems to have no real motive for existence. When some unexpected news is delivered by a compassionate police officer, his hobo life is … Continue reading
Gilles Peterson is the Pied Piper for cutting edge music from all over the globe. He’s a DJ on BBC Radio 6, a record producer and collector, and owns several record labels including Acid Jazz, Talkin Loud and Brownswood. If there’s any noteworthy sound with a touch of funk, soul, jazz or synths, Gilles is … Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that women make up approximately 20% of the professional jazz world. From composers, instrumentalists and singers, this music genre has an unhappy imbalance in the male-to-female ratio. It’s stats like that which prompted the good folk at Birds Eye Film to raise the profile of some of the ridiculously talented women striving … Continue reading
TELLY BBC iPlayer results show Jan 2014 was biggest month ever for BBC iPlayer with over 315m TV and Radio requests. Sherlock’s Ep 1 generated 3.6m requests (3rd best requested show) Hannibal’s SVOD marketing provides food for thought NBC and Amazon host #13HourDevour event inviting fans to a mass binge-view complete … Continue reading
Imagine doctors told you have 30 days to live. What do you do? Slip into a state of denial? Tell them they’ve made a mistake? Spend your cash on cheap hookers and expensive drugs? Rodeo Romeo, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) did just that when he was told to prepare for his pending doom after catching … Continue reading
1: Frances Ha happened Frances Ha is everything Bridget Jones wanted to be if only she could stop counting calories and worrying about men. It bashed another nail in the Women Can’t Be Funny coffin with a Greta Gerwig shaped hammer with kooky class and the hipster sass. Any woman who’s had a relationship with a fellow … Continue reading
With more highlights than Paris Hilton after a trip to Toni & Guy, choosing the best bits from this year’s London Film Festival was a tricky task. Talk about 1st world problems. From Oct 9th – 20th, in-between sleeping and eating, the only thing taking up time was sitting in the dark watching films with … Continue reading
A film about Walt Disney, made by Disney, runs the risk of coming across like a self-congratulatory pig in its own muck, but Saving Mr. Banks has managed to save its own bacon by actually, being very good. It took 20 years for Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) to convince Pamela Travers (Emma Thompson) to sign … Continue reading
On New Year’s Day I woke up with a tongue you could file your nails on and a head that felt like a salt-rimmed axe was wedged between my ears. The fact that I was wearing only my eyeliner, one sock and a woolly hat meant it was a good night, but I was in … Continue reading
12 Years A Slave is the unsettling true story of Solomon Northup as he’s swiped from his life as a family man in 19th century New York, and shoved into the shackles of slavery in the Deep South. Acclaimed British Director Steve McQueen still has a fetish for Michael Fassbender (Steve directed Fassbender in Shame … Continue reading
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