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What We Do In The Shadows (2014) directed by Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi
Hands up who's sick of vampires? Over the last decade they've infested pop culture to the point of saturation; every conceivable niche packed with every possible variety of vampire. Sexy, predatory,...
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'Get on Up' (2014) directed by Tate Taylor
Get on Up opens with a drugged-out, incoherent, psychotic, shotgun wielding James Brown marching around an insurance brokerage. He's babbling an incomprehensible stream of consciousness, punctuated...
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'Electra' at LimeWharf, 14th November 2014
I wasn't going to write about last night's trip to LimeWharf. For one I'd already got my article about last night sorted, for another I'd arrived too late to see one of my friends perform and finally...
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'Dead Cat Bounce - Alice Woods' at Light Eye Mind, 14th November 2014
"Even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great enough height." A quote from a creepy, morbid weirdo? Nope. It's from the world of finance, referring to stock prices briefly resurging during or...
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'An Evening with Arnold Schwarzenegger' at the Lancaster London Hotel, 15th...
The best metric of fame is that people immediately know who you're talking about just from a mention of their first name. Mention Michael, Diana or Brad and people just know. There are few people...
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'Seeing-I' at BL_NK, 17th November 2014
Every day we struggle to define ourselves in relation to the amorphous mass of humanity. In a sea of styles, opinions, tastes and philosophies we compete to stick our head above the parapet and yell...
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'What Not Cabaret' at Mimetic Festival, 18th November 2014
I love hanging out in The Vaults under Waterloo Station. Over the years I've seen this labyrinth of tunnels accommodate a 1980s-themed apocalypse, a horror-themed circus and a psytrance hippy rave....
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'Miss Glory Pearl: The Naked Stand Up' at Mimetic Festival, 18th November 2014
Two seconds in: "Wow, she's really naked!". Ten seconds in: "I can't believe I'm watching a naked stand up comedian, this is so cool!". Thirty seconds in: "Okay I get it, what now?". Miss Glory Pearl...
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'Mummy' by Amy Gwilliam at Mimetic Festival, 18th November 2014
Watching someone rummage about in an attic for an hour doesn't sound like the most immediately tantalising prospect in the world. Yet Amy Gwilliam's one woman show makes this process into a miniature...
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'Hoke's Bluff' at Shoreditch Town Hall, 19th November 2014
Cultural osmosis is a strange thing. I've never laid eyes on an American football player in full uniform, never watched a cheerleading demonstration and certainly never been yelled at by a grumpy yet...
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'The Ruby Darlings' at Mimetic Festival, 19th November 2014
As I walked home I was cheerily singing; "you can put it in my front-bum, but not in my bum-bum". Thisearned me a few sideways glances but, well, when you've got an earworm you can't really help...
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'Baby Lame: Don't Call It a Comeback' at Mimetic Festival, 20th
I suspect my perspective on what's normal and what's not has become irretrievably skewed. By way of an example: I'm sitting in a damp tunnel underneath Waterloo station watching an intensely bearded...
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'Paddington' (2014) directed by Paul King
At first sight, Paddington Bear looks monstrous, his creepy photorealistic fur bringing to mind 2010’s astonishingly misconceived Yogi Bear. You can almost hear the soft, squelching sound as audience’s...
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'Marion Deprez is Gorgeous' at Mimetic Festival, 25th November 2014
Can you be beautiful and funny? Cast your eyes around the dressing room of the average comedy club and you'll see a dowdy group of distinctly average looking bozos. Is being funny a way for those...
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'The Libertine has Left the Building' at Mimetic Festival, 25th November 2014
About midway through The Libertine has Left the Building, Michael Twaits explains that the most terrifying affliction an artist can be struck with is happiness. His example is Adele; a baby, a loving...
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'The Boy Who Kicked Pigs' at Mimetic Festival, 27th November 2014
In the end only one pig got kicked, and even that turned out to be a piggy bank. Still, you're a fool if you feel short-changed after a four-strong show that features shark attacks, burning nuns,...
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'Get Santa' (2014) directed by Christopher Smith
Get Santa is probably the only Christmas family movie that raises this question: could Santa be a child molester? The scene comes early in the film, when precocious moppet Tom has discovered a creepy,...
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'I AM / THE ISL△ND' by Cluster Bomb [Collective] at Wells Wall Pop Up, 28th...
Cluster Bomb [Collective] have been dissecting and reassembling J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island for about two years. The text has been chopped, screwed, slowed, thrown, mangled and fucked every which...
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'Rubyyy Jones's Young Feminist Whores' at Mimetic Festival, 29th November 2014
Well with a name like that how I could I resist? I figured if any show was going to get right up in my face with wide-eyed, experimental, angry-as-all-fuck political theatre it was going to be...
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'The Institute of Sexology' at the Wellcome Collection
With its dull grey decor and formal atmosphere The Institute of Sexology is the epitome of 'just-the-facts-ma'am' seriousness. This soberness makes for an interesting contrast with the subject matter;...
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