WHIPLASH is faster, more brutal and more exhilarating than even its fast, brutal and exhilarating title would suggest. It’s also, fittingly, just as painful. Rarely have I found myself visibly wincing through the entirety...
HISTORY and film have a funny old relationship. A significant portion of films are based on historical events, and these events are better-remembered as a result of these films. Historical films are, by-and-large, more...
ON THIS MONTH’s Breaking Down The Backlog, I take the long way to Planet Majorca, get my throat torn out by a rabid fungus and try to clear my name Unsurprisingly, The Witcher 2 is...
IT’S SO RARE to encounter an album that combines characteristics of Romantic music with beats that sound like they come off a Wu-Tang Clan album. With These New Puritan’s 2010 second album, you had...
Andrew Noel ventured into the heart of an impenetrable darkness so you wouldn’t have to. Reader discretion advised: There will be explicit, distasteful and very, very, very offensive images in this article. LET’S say you have...
Since Nintendo Direct happened yesterday (14th Janurary 2015) I decided to write about my experiences with the New Nintendo 3DS XL I haven’t had a portable games system since…the Gameboy Advance in the heady...
Today Nintendo announced a load of stuff for America and Europe in something called Nintendo Direct, a presentation that is basically a pre-rendered video streamed from their website. Here is a very basic overview of...
LOU REED was something of a mixed bag. For every Berlin and Transformer there was a Metal Machine Music or, god forbid, a Lulu. Tracing the solo careers of The Velvet Underground is no...
by Daniel Abbott, Sam Halford, Jozef Raczka & Andrew Noel · Published January 10, 2015 · Last modified January 12, 2015
CHOOSING the best films of 2014 was a tricky one. In a cracking year for cinema, any number of films could have made this list; many of those omitted will show up in an...
THE FIRST Torment of the New Year is, coincidentally, the final film I watched last year. Samurai Cop, a 1991 film directed, written and produced by Z-grade auteur Amir Shervan, is exactly what it sounds...
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