The Brown Note Movie Review

Blink Twice (2024) Movie Review

Nepo baby and first time director, Zoe Kravitz, takes on what's becoming quite a trope lately - rich people on an island behaving badly, in one of 2024's IT horror movies. Despite some strong ideas thematically, compared to the likes of Infinity Pool or The Menu or even Knives Out 2, it's nearer the back of the pack.

Floating Points - Cascade (2024) Album Review

The honorable Sam Shepherd returns with his raviest Floating Points album yet, and probably the years best electronic release.

Kinds of Kindness (2024) Film Review

Auteur of the moment, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos shuns his recent foray into Hollywood royalty (The Favorite/Poor Things) with a return to the punishing uncomfortable art-house of The Killing of the Sacred Deer. For nearly three uncompromising hours, across three deliberately bleak and obtuse stories. It feels like either an attack or a challenge on the viewer but Jessie Plemons is a career best twice.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God (2024) Album Review

Their 18th studio album unexpectedly turns the unfortunately thrilling second act of Nick Cave into the maximalist, away from the brilliant abstract, avant experimentalism of Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen. There's plenty to adore in Cave's battle with the God's, though the heavyweight first half of the album is more compelling than the more resigned and conventionally composed second half.

The Age of Cage: The Ten Best Modern Nicolas Cage Movies

We are all of us blessed to have lived in the same time as the deity Nicolas Cage, bathed in his magnificence. Now no longer viewed as an A list actor who went off the boil, his modern filmography contains numerous low key classics. My ten favorite Cage films from the last twenty years.

Rebel Ridge (2024) Film Review

Director Jeremy Saulnier continues his strong run of idiosyncratic films, with this inspired take on one of cinemas most overused tropes, the mysterious (and tough) stranger, walks into a small town and comes into conflict with the authorities. With top notch casting and writing, it may get to the same place as nearly every one of these post First Blood films, but the journey there is a hell of a lot more interesting, if long.

Oasis are Shite: How Oasis Killed British Music

And in an era where music festivals are dying, featuring rote pop acts as headliners, with no musicians and backing tracks, how the Oasis reunion could save music, by bringing back the band.

JPEGMAFIA - I Lay Down My Life for You (2024) Album Review

In the first banner year for the rap album in a decade, another great album. This time with a wild foray into Death Metal and Death Grips, from one of the biggest mavericks in underground Hip hop.

Jack White - No Name (2024) Album Review

The White Stripes supremo drops his most exciting solo project yet and it feels perfectly timed. With the Oasis reunion in full swing, this fabulous album, harking back to the heady early garage rock days of his most famous band could not be more on point.

The Union (2024) Movie Review

What's most startling about this low-rent big-budget Mission Impossible rip-off is how vastly superior the panned Gal Gadot movie, Heart of Stone, is in every way.