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Review: 'Tower' (2016) directed by Keith Maitland [LFF 2016]
"50 years ago a gunshot rang out across the University of Texas campus. Claire Wilson, a pregnant student, was hit in the belly, instantly killing her unborn child. Her fiance, Thomas Eckman turned to...
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'Skin a Cat' at the Bunker, 19th October 2016
Alana's cunt is broken. It is, as Thomas De Quincey said in Confessions of an Opium Eater, "sealed up, like the valley of Rasselas, against the intrusion of the world". Skin a Cat, by Isley Lynn,...
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Review: 'Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children' (2016), directed by Alberto...
"Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children is a weird, brutal and lyrical Spanish animated film (with no connection to the Double Fine game of the same name) that feels like the mutant lovechild of Hayao...
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Review: 'Lake Bodom' (2016) directed by Taneili Mustonon [LFF 2016]
"When four attractive teenagers go camping in the woods on the exact spot where four attractive teenagers were brutally murdered forty years ago, what the hell do they expect to happen? Lake Bodom, by...
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Review: 'The Man from Mo'Wax' (2016) directed by Matthew Jones (LFF 2016)
"The Man from MoāWax is a very strange music documentary. Most films of this ilk are glowing accounts of an individual or bandās inexorable rise to the top of the charts, demonstrating their musical...
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'From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads' at the Waterloo East Theatre, 20th October...
In From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, anxiety-ridden anorexic 18 year old Martin embarks upon an psychogeographical David Bowie odyssey. He visits the Stockwell house where Bowie (then David Jones) was...
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Review: 'Fear in the Dark' at Abney Park Cemetery, 22nd October 2016
Nestled right in the firmly gentrified heart of Stoke Newington, Abney Park Cemetery is hemmed in on all sides by concept restaurants and cocktail bars. Yet just a couple of steps beyond its imposing...
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'Truncated Nightmare Hour Live!: Episode 1' at the Old Red Lion, 24th October...
Horror/science fiction anthologies are having a day in the sun. Titans of the genre likeĀ Twilight Zone,Ā Outer Limits or Tales from the CryptĀ once appeared to be a thing of the past, abandoned in favour...
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Review: 'Dare Devil Rides to Jarama' at the Bussey Building, 25th October 2016
I consider myself pretty politically engaged. I volunteer on political campaigns. I attend marches. I help out with advocacy groups. I work in law reform. But would I pick up a rifle, head overseas and...
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Interview: The Trailer Park Boys
It's 2004 and I am stoned. While dazed on the sofa a friend pulls out a USB memory stick and tells me he's got this awesome new comedy I've got to check out. "What is it?" I ask. "It's a Canadian...
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Review: 'Side Show' at the Southwark Playhouse, 27th October 2016
Typical isn't it? You wait around for a story about conjoined twins and then two come along at once. Just a couple of weeks ago at the London Film Festival I enjoyed Indivisible. The film followed...
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Review: 'The Acedian Pirates' at Theatre503, 28th October 2016
As we process into remembrance season, the deification of soldiers is 'amplified to deafening volume. Why must we humble ourselves at the feet of the man with the gun and call him 'hero? What has he...
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Review: 'Rubber Ring' at the Pleasance Theatre, 1st November 2016
Coincidence is a funny thing. This week has randomly thrown up two plays that take their titles from songs by The Smiths:Ā Rubber Ring and Still Ill. ThisĀ is off to a great start before I've even...
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Review: 'The Last Five Years' at the St James Theatre, 2nd November 2016
I've got to figure out whether I should bother seeing musicals. Most of them are complete garbage: plastic performers singing and dancing to plastic songs. It's music and drama for the painfully...
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Review: 'Still Ill' at the New Diorama Theatre, 4th November 2016
In Still Ill, Morrissey asks one of the classical biggies of philosophy "Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?" Are we creatures of intellect or instinct? Are we beholden to our...
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Review: 'The Worst Was This' at the Hope Theatre, 10th November 2016
The Worst Was ThisĀ feels like two plays have crashed headlong into one another. The resulting tangled wreckage is a strange beast: a gothic quasi-Elizabethan portmanteau of horror and historical...
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Review: 'Princess' at the Lost Theatre, 16th November 2016
Princess is completely baffling. It bills itself as "finding the feminism in Disney", yet feels more like being trapped in a shitty goth nightclub. Rather than some exploration of gender politics, this...
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Review: 'The Residents' in New Cross Gate, 17th November 2016
In the long run we're all ghosts. Vast swathes of London housing dates back about a hundred years: bricks and mortar that have borne witness to everything from V2 bombs to flower children. If you live...
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Review: 'Tonight with Donny Stixx' at the Bunker, 18th November 2016
Poor little Donny Stixx. Born with a club foot to a mother that despises imperfection, socially maladjusted and trapped in a delusion that stardom is just around the corner. Life has dealt him the...
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Review: 'Little Red Riding Hood & Other Lost Girls' at the Crouch End...
Bad things happen in the woods. Deep within the tangled foliage, where the trees blot out the sun and the ground grows boggy, chaos reigns. This is the kingdom of the wolf: a rapacious, amoral force of...
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