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'Gathered Leaves' by Alec Soth at the Science Museum, 5th October 2015
“Everyone can take great pictures,” Alec Soth tells BJP at the opening of his first UK exhibition, Gathered Leaves, at London’s Science Museum. “What’s hard is taking a collection of great pictures and...
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'The Forbidden Room' (2015) directed by Guy Maddin [London Film Festival 2015]
"I entered the BFI IMAX, the largest and loudest screen in the United Kingdom, at 18:20. At a shade after 18:40, Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room began. About two hours later I stumbled, disorientated,...
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'Thriller Live' at the Lyric Theatre, 8th October 2015
Ah the jukebox musical, we meet again. This genre is the most nakedly commercial inhabitant of a bulging West End, landing somewhere between the X-Factor and karaoke in artistic validity. But I...
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'Kyary Pamyu Pamyu' at the Roundhouse, 11th October 2015
Arguably, buying gig tickets on the basis of a couple of bonkers music videos is a bad idea. Then again, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's music videos are amazing. Viral smash Pon Pon Pon is her most notorious...
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'Black Mass' (2015) directed by Scott Cooper [London Film Festival 2015]
Johnny Depp's regression from ultra-cool indie darling to flouncing tit depressed the hell out of me. Outright classics like Edward Scissorhands,Dead Man, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Ed Wood...
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'High-Rise' directed by Ben Wheatley [London Film Festival 2015]
“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.”J.G....
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'Bone Tomahawk' (2015) directed by S. Craig Zahler [London Film Festival 2015]
Allow me to sell you on a movie: Kurt Russell plays a hard-bitten old West Sheriff who must battle a tribe of mutant cannibal troglodytes to save his townsfolk. The title? Bone Tomahawk. Try saying...
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'The Lobster' (2015) directed by Yorgos Lanthimos [London Film Festival 2015]
The Lobster is about as high concept as it gets. In a mildly dystopian future, any singletons must report to a hotel. Once there they must fall in love within 40 days, if they fail to do so theywill...
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'Arianna' (2015) directed by Carlo Lavagna [London Film Festival 2015]
"It was in the woods near Halicarnassus that Hermaphroditus fatefully encountered the nymph Salmacis. Resting in her pool, she was overcome with lust for the beautiful boy and tried unsuccessfully to...
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'Dougie Wallace Interview' for the British Journal of Photography
"“Disgusting”. “Perverted.” “The British Judiciary should hold him accountable for what he’s doing.”These are just a handful of reactions to Dougie Wallace’s new body of work: Harrodsburg.Lauded for...
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'Carol' (2015) directed by Todd Haynes [London Film Festival 2015]
"Sadness and hope intertwine in Todd Haynes’ Carol, where a couple are caught in each other’s gravitational pull and the universe tries to tear them apart.Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s much-loved...
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'Exotica, Erotica, Etc.' (2015) directed by Evangelina Kranioti [London Film...
"Boats. Big boats. Big men on big boats. Also, prostitutes."Read the full review at We Got This Covered.★★
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'Playground' at the Old Red Lion Theatre, 21st October 2015
Playground is a group of interesting characters in search of a plot. Set in east London's Victoria Park, the story revolves around a book club studying the Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels. They are;...
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'Titus Andronicus' at the New Wimbledon Studio, 22nd October 2015
Shakespeare famously wrote that revenge is a dish best served cold, though his alternative suggestion of serving it inside a great big pie works for me too. Titus Andronicus has always been my...
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'The Loris' at the Bloomsbury Festival, 23rd October 2015
The Loris is a tricky bit of theatre to review. It runs on pure-grade surprise, sending participants pinballing around underneath UCL while hearing some very strange stories. The audience will spiral...
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'Silvia Ziranek' at the Bloomsbury Festival, 24th October 2015
Swaddled in fairy lights, tiara-clad and wound up into roll of fabric; you're not going to mistake anyone else for Silvia Ziranek. She was performing at the Bloomsbury Festival, which marks the...
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'Spectre' (2015) directed by Sam Mendes
With Spectre Daniel Craig surpasses Connery and is now officially the best James Bond ever. Save for the stumble of 2008's Quantum of Solace, Craig's films have delivered CPR to an ailing franchise...
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'The Boat' at Theatre N16, 27th October 2015
I can't fault The Boat's ambition. Theatre N16's new home in Balham (they were priced out of Stoke Newington and can't afford to rebrand) turns the top floor of the Bedford Pub into the open ocean. A...
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'Invisible Treasure' at Ovalhouse, 28th October 2015
"Invisible Treasure is an interactive digital playspace, an electrifying exploration of human relationships, power structures and individual agency." - fanSHENI was sold! As I spend most of my nights...
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'The State vs. John Hayes' at the King's Head Theatre, 29th October 2015
Death row is an alien concept in Britain. We're familiar with its rhythms and rituals from cinema and television: the last meal, the visit from the priest, the long walk to the execution chamber and...
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