Foundation Year, Dune
5 November 2021
Films
In the December Sight & Sound magazine some words about Foundation Year, a micro-budget college romance willed into existence by the enthusiasm of
No Time to Die
7 October 2021
Films
Casino Royale is a great film apart from that interminable stuff at an airport while you’re waiting for Eva Green to show up, although I’m not sure
Mandibles, Mad God
23 August 2021
Films
Two from the Edinburgh International Film Festival at Critic’s Notebook: Mandibles is the deadpan one with the big giant fly and Adèle Exarchopolus
Judging Dredd
18 August 2021
Art
At The Comics Journal a review of a new book of critical essays on the subject of Judge Dredd, which can’t really be tackled without a pop at the
Security
2 August 2021
Films
For the September issue of Sight and Sound magazine a review of Security, an Italian film set in Tuscany directed by an Englishman adapted from a
Celestia, Zig Zag
22 July 2021
Art
For Tripwire a review of Manuele Fior’s Celestia, a major work by an artist with a few of those already on the shelf. Some of them contain bits of
First Cow
28 May 2021
Films
arrives in the UK a fairly bemusing five months after being labelled the third best film of 2020 by a UK magazine, a situation which works
Army of the Dead
25 May 2021
Films
Netflix put up a behind the scenes thing for Army of the Dead in which Zack Snyder seems as carefree as the winds, just coasting through some
Dr Divinus and S Craig Zahler
12 May 2021
Art
No point blaming Tarantino for everything (apart from Death Proof which is still criminal) but what is this if not a comic caught in the eternal
Monsters
4 May 2021
Art
Barry Windsor-Smith emerges from many years of silence with a style you recognise in a nanosecond and a book so intensely focused on the despair of
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