Album released this week in… 1991: Slint – Spiderland
FEW ALBUMS are inherently dark, and Slint’s Spiderland is one of them. It’s black, dreadful and at its core, full of sadness. As the four members of Slint stare at you from the album...
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Review: Hail, Caesar! – An enjoyable, if meandering effort from the Coens
It’s no secret that Joel and Ethan Coen love detectives and mysteries. The vast majority of their films bear all the hallmarks of the best detective novels; a kidnapping, put-upon protagonists, red herrings, questionably...
I binge watched Daredevil Season 2 and this is what I thought…
IT WAS INEVITABLE. Daredevil’s first season was a lot of things: unforgiving in its violence, shocking at every turn, and so fantastically orchestrated as to be received with the critical success it deserved. The...
Untitled Unmastered: Even Kendrick’s outtakes are brilliant.
KANYE West’s last album, The Life of Pablo, has been in production for around three years, has been highly anticipated, was released to fanfare and features some massive celebrity names. It sprawls 18 massive...
I didn’t binge watch House of Cards season four and this is what I thought…
HOUSE of Cards has landed at the perfect time. With the presidential race heating up, Frank and Claire Underwood’s exploits in the White House are just as exciting as the real thing, often with...
Album released this week in… 2004: Jem – Finally Woken
PERHAPS one of the most cruelly overlooked Pop albums of the last decade or so has been Welsh singer Jem’s debut album, Finally Woken. While it received strong positive reviews on release, Finally Woken seems...
Breaking Down the Backlog: Catherine
In this week’s BDTB, I cheated on my girlfriend with a much younger woman and somehow ended up freeing all men throughout the world. I had heard about Catherine before I started playing it. I...
Cross-Console Multiplayer now exists?!?!
So today Chris Charla – the director of ID @ Xbox which I believe is basically one part of the games department at Microsoft – announced in a letter posted on the Xbox news...
New Captain America: Civil War trailer debuts, people lose their minds.
A NEW TRAILER for the upcoming Captain America film has dropped, which features plenty of new footage from the newest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The trailer, which you can view below, feature...
Maybe Love isn’t all you need, but it’s still pretty good
LOVE has a lot to recommend it; it’s just a shame that so much of it is round the edges. The latest in a long line of Netflix Originals, Love is a collaboration between Girls‘...
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