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'How to Train Your Dragon 2' (2014) directed by Dean DeBlois
In 2010 DreamWorks Animation was primarily known for their onslaught of pop-culture referencing, celebrity-voiced kids films populated by cute animals that all make the same face. Compared to the...
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Glastonbury Festival 2014
Sunburnt, sleep-deprived and covered in mud I stumbled home from Glastonbury. I had a brain full of bad wiring and a body that was in the process of shutting down, organ by organ. This is the physical...
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eels at Royal Albert Hall, 30th June 2014
Maybe booking tickets to a gig the very day I arrive back from Glastonbury wasn't the best idea in the world. I'd partied my little heart out until 7am that morning before grubbily hopping on a coach...
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Czech Season at Riverside Studios (The Fireman's Ball, Buttoners & Markéta...
As long time readers will know I have a soft spot for Czech cinema, particularly 1960s films produced as part of the Czechoslovak New Wave. In the midst of staid, dull and rigid cinema, these films...
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Kanye West at Wireless Festival, 4th July 2014
Kanye West might be the weirdest performer I've ever seen - and I've seen some pretty weird shit. I adore a bit of personality in music; I'm magnetically drawn to big personalities with a penchant for...
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(60) Days of Summer at Curious Duke Gallery
Just a quick report from Curious Duke, my favourite local gallery. They're on a bit of a winning streak at the moment with their exhibitions, picking punkish young artists with street-honed...
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'Once Upon a Nightmare' at the Courtyard Theatre, 5th July 2014
After the hilarious and deservedly successful Death Ship 666, I was seriously happy to see an invitation to Box Step Production's new show drop into my inbox. Watching a show you've first seen in a...
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'Begin Again' (2014) directed by John Carney
Begin Again is a lovely salad with a big lump of shit sitting proudly in the middle of it. Sure the shit is only touching a tiny bit of the salad, but you're sure as hell not going to be eating...
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'Digital Revolution' at the Barbican Centre, 8th July 2014
Digital Revolution is an unreasonably entertaining exhibition. Within the Curve Gallery at the Barbican centre they've crammed a crazy amount of eye-catching, imaginative and straight up fun...
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'Guinea Pigs on Trial' / 'Are You Lonesome Tonight' at Theatre Delicatessen,...
Edinburgh Fringe preview season is one of my favourite parts of the year. There's nothing like watching increasingly frazzled young performers in a state of mild-to-strong freak out as August crawls...
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HOLY SH!T STAMP! at Theatre Delicatessen, 11th July 2014
My ideal night out can be summarised pretty easily; hanging out in an interesting place surrounded by interesting people doing interesting things. If there's some nudity tossed into the mix that's a...
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'Transformers: Age of Extinction' (2014) directed by Michael Bay
In 2007 I walked out of Transformers. I was gobsmacked at how racist, sexist and exploitational the film was, and how readily everyone around me was hoovering it up. Nuts to this, I like proper...
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'Yve Blake & Co: Then' at the Soho Theatre, 13 July 2014
Picking the whole damn human condition as the topic for your one woman show takes guts. Yve Blake is stepping into the ring with an 800lb gorilla of a subject as an opponent, sending us on an hour's...
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'Earth to Echo' (2014) directed by Dave Green
It's a found footage E.T. That last sentence could be the most precise description of a film I've ever given, I could stop the review right there and that's all you'd need to know. Well that and it's...
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Screen Robot Filmcast Episode 11
Back once again on the Screen Robot Filmcast! Me chatting about Begin Again and taking on everyone in a spirited defence of Michael Bay.
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'Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK' at the British Library
Or, as it could also be titled: Alan Moore the Exhibition. The Great Bearded One aka The Sage of Northampton aka The Prophet of Glycon aka That Grumpy Old Bastard who Hates Movies looms over...
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'The Purge: Anarchy' (2014) directed by James DeMonaco
As far as ridiculous movie premises go The Purge takes some beating. Set in a near-future US, the government has decreed that the best way to reduce crime is that for one night a year all crime...
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'The Last Days of Limehouse' at Limehouse Town Hall, 17th July 2014
Try to imagine Brick Lane without a curryhouse in sight. It's a strange vision. Yet this is exactly what happened to Limehouse. The area used to be synonymous with its Chinese population,...
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'Mood Indigo' (2014) directed by Michel Gondry
There are few things more tedious than having someone tell you their dreams. This is precisely the same tedium that Mood Indigo induces: “and then the alarm clock turned into a spider, and a little...
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'Darren Storer Reading' at Русский мир, 18th July 2014
"This is David. He's a journalist. He's going to write about us". A roomful of eyes turned to me as I sheepishly waved hello. The speaker was David William Parry, Heathen Priest of the Goddess...
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