Possessor
28 November 2020
Films
is a wise and serious film about mental health, by any non-judgemental description. Reviews that don’t mention David Cronenberg should get
Raqib Shaw
10 November 2020
Art
Last Rites of Artist’s Ego (2016). Been there
Trial of the Chicago 7, The Newsroom
19 October 2020
Films
Mutterings about Aaron Sorkin and The Trial of the Chicago 7 suggest it’s the season to fret about the cinema of the Centre again, which would sound
Judge Dredd America, Perramus
16 October 2020
Art
For Tripwire some words about the latest reissue of Judge Dredd: America, the thirty-year-old story that’s become its own cottage industry; the most
Crash Course, Mtsyry Octobriana
22 September 2020
Art
For The Comics Journal a review of Crash Course, a righteous and angry activist comic by Woodrow Phoenix which starts off being about bad driving
Candyman, Savage
18 September 2020
Art
Candyman (1992) Bernard Rose/Clive Barker Savage from 2000AD (2016) Pat Mills/Patrick Goddard
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tenet, She Dies Tomorrow
15 September 2020
Films
Film viewings: Not much about Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a surprise for anyone following Céline Sciamma’s humane and compassionate films of queer
Nocturnal, Lynn + Lucy
30 August 2020
Films
In the October Sight & Sound magazine some words about Nocturnal, a small-scale British working-class film of fatherly anguish. That period when the
Grok by Will Sweeney
6 August 2020
Art
Will Sweeney’s latest self-published retrospective art book Grok, reviewed by me for The Comics Journal. There’s some anti-establishment aggro in
The Old Guard, 6 Underground, S Craig Zahler
28 July 2020
Films
Film criticism might once have had to be dragooned into doing PR for Netflix but these days it’s obliged to volunteer, so it gave The Old Guard a
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