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Django Unchained – Tarrantino’s Ode To The Timeless Black Hero.
By now, most of you will have seen Quentin Tarratino’s latest masterpiece, ‘Django Unchained’, you may have even seen it multiple times. I’m not going to talk about how much of a brave, daring film...
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Dragonslayer (2011)
Directed by Tristan Patterson, Dragonslayer is a wonderfully tragic film, yet one that is filled with youthful joy and carelessness. Dragonslayer follows twenty-something skateboard bum Josh ‘Skreech’...
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What if Nike Air Max trainers were Hip Hop songs?
With the growing interest in re-released and retro’d trainers over the past few years, I got thinking about the intertwined history between Hip Hop and sports footwear. With Nas spitting lines such as...
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The va va voom of drinking coffee: which one are you?
Working as a barista at Starbucks for the last 8 months has led me to come into contact with all sorts of people. Some genuine, nice coffee drinkers, some quiet connoisseurs who keep themselves to...
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Killing Them Softly
‘America I have given you all and now I’m nothing’ – Allen Ginsberg, ‘America’ Beat poet Allen Ginsberg caught on pretty early, to the fact that America was a place that had fast become a superpower,...
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This Sporting Life: motivations behind the participation of sport
The ancient pastime of sport is probably one of the things that hasn’t changed much since it’s birth some 6 – 8, 000 years ago*; yet it remains so prominent and mainstream. It’s one of the most...
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The Moon Under Water revisited 2012.
In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay entitled ‘The Moon Under Water’, in which he described his perfect pub. Almost 70 years on, and I’m going to test his theory to see if any of this still holds...
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A well worn tool
A man aged around 60 with a face like burnt leather begins to sharpen his favourite pencil. Wearing a previously white apron that had now turned a curious shade of creamy brown, he wipes the black,...
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‘Millennium meltdown: How ‘Dream films’ shaped the world 1999 – 2001′
The possibilities of a dream world, or a tangent, secondary universe running parallel to our own, is one that has been explored thoroughly and widely in the medium of film. These films are often about...
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Lincoln: A realist work of art or a concept gone to waste?
By Tom Hodgson. As I sat down to watch ‘Lincoln’ this weekend, I had a number of expectations running through my mind. The main one being from the hype surrounding Daniel Day Lewis’ performance in his...
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