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'Financial Statements' by Marc Blane at Gallery Petit
Our lives are governed by abstract, robot Gods. Somewhere there's a chunk of silicon with an algorithm coded onto it that literally plots the course of your life. Coolly dispassionate anonymous...
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Mott the Hoople at the o2, 18th November 2013
The year: 2051. The place: NeoLondon. I emerge from my Sl33pPod and blink, disorientated in a halogen haze. Hopping onboard an automated BozBike I navigate the glittering zero-g spires and head to the...
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Lemaitre at Fabric, 20th November 2013
Daft Punk's 2001 album Discovery has a lot to answer for. After 12 years the sound it pioneered continues to reverberate around the music industry, singlehandedly reviving the disco beats dormant...
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'Star Food & Wine' by Waxwing Exhibitions, 21st November 2013
The deserted hulks that haunt our streets fill me with curiosity. When you've lived in a place long enough you learn which shops are permanent, which change hands every year and which are the slowly...
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Skrillex at Building Six, the o2, 22nd November 2013
I've never been so profoundly affected by a gig in my life. It wasn't anything so high-falutin' as musical virtuosity or poetic, lyrical genius. No, Skrillex affected me on a far more fundamental...
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The Day of the Doctor (2013) directed by Nick Hurran
Watching Doctor Who in a cinema is blasphemy. Television in the cinema rarely works well; especially not special effects driven science fiction. What looks great from the corner of your living room...
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'Vendetta' (2013) directed by Stephen Reynolds
Vendetta is a deranged, racist piece of shit with the morals of Richard Littlejohn and the collective intelligence of an EDL march. This is a film so vicious, sadistic and unabashedly racist that it...
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'Free Birds' (2013) directed by Jimmy Hayward ★★
Free Birds is an animated film about talking time travelling turkeys, something that at the very least is a relatively high-concept idea. In terms of animated films we're just at the end of the Pixar...
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'Powder Room' (2013) directed by M.J. Delaney ★★★★
A mark of a good film is showing an audience something new: be it exploring strange science-fiction worlds, heightened pulp realities or just letting us experience the limits of human experience....
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'Woyzeck' at the Omnibus Clapham, 28th November 2013
When you step through the doors of the Omnibus Clapham you walk into the world of Woyzeck. The floor is covered in peaty wood chips, the air misty with smoke and the walls covered in ancient looking...
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'This Ain't California' (2013) directed by Martin Perseil
This Ain't California is an onion. Slice into it you reveal layer upon layer. Also it might make you cry. It looks and behaves like a documentary yet has little or no interest in presenting an...
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'Homefront' (2013) directed by Gary Fleder
They had my ass in the seat at 'Jason Statham versus James Franco'. Both actors are favourites of mine: Statham for the balls-out craziness of the two Crank films, Franco for the neon-soaked hypnosis...
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'Frozen' (2013) directed by Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee
When Disney bought Marvel Comics in 2009 many feared the worst. Would Spider-Man become tinged by Disney's everything's-just-peachy attitude? Would The Punisher wind up with a smartass talking bird...
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'I'm Never Shopping Here Again' by Black Rat Projects, 1st December 2013
With a name that conjures up images of a pathetic consumer desperately trying to assert their importance to an uncaring corporate God I'm Never Shopping Here Again feels rather timely. The run-up to...
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'Kill Your Darlings' (2013) directed by John Krokidas
Kill Your Darlings is 'Beat Generation: The College Years'. The year is 1943 and our protagonist is a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), about to venture out from a home in turmoil and broaden...
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'Nebraska' (2013) directed by Alexander Payne
Nebraska looks like a right shithole. Payne shoots the film with an arthouse zombiefilm sensibilities: beautifully framed and composed shots of boarded up shops, cracked pavements and obsolescent...
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'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' (2013) directed by Justin Chadwick
The fortuitously timed release of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom must have Harvey Weinstein rubbing his palms with glee. What better publicity could a film have than wall-to-wall global media...
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'Only Lovers Left Alive' (2013) directed by Jim Jarmusch
Please allow me to introduce Adam and Eve. They're people of wealth and taste and they've been around for a long, long year. Beautiful, aloof, dressed to the nines, concealing dispassionate eyes...
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'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' (2013) directed by Peter Jackson
The biggest compliment I can give The Desolation of Smaug is that after 160 odd minutes I would happily have watched more. High praise indeed for a film I was faintly dreading. The previous...
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'Rip It Up & Start Again' by Richard Walker at Gallery Petit
Joyful destruction as creative impulse: that's my distillation of punk. A forest fire scorches the earth clean of life leaving behind a smoking hellscape. As gnarled, rotten wood collapses into ash,...
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