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For anyone of a similar age to me it's fairly likely that at some point in your childhood you encountered at least some of the many action figure based cartoon TV series that had their heyday in the mid-80s to the mid-90s; from He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe to Thundercats and Transformers. One... Continue Reading →
The idea of Stephen Fry, man of the world and, on screen at least, great educator of esoteric information via the likes of QI, retelling the Greek myths for a modern world is, on paper, a perfect combination and so I was excited to read just that in Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold. While I... Continue Reading →
Anyone who's been into a comic shop or looked at the 'graphic novel' section of a regular bookshop can't fail to have noticed, standing out somewhat from the usual comic book fare, Art Spiegelman's Maus with it stylised 'cat-swastika' and pair of impoverished looking mice on the cover. As a regular reader of comics Maus... Continue Reading →
When I first saw the film Blinded By The Light, about a young British Asian man and his fandom for Bruce Springsteen, I thought it was a nice and entertaining story with a positive message. As the credits rolled though I spotted that it was based on a book, and that turned out to be... Continue Reading →
After watching the film Lord Of Chaos over the summer I thought I'd finally give the book it was based on a read. Going in I knew the film only focussed on one part of the book and that this goes into more depth around both the Norwegian Black Metal scene and it's associated political... Continue Reading →
The rock autobiography is nothing new with many musicians of a certain age realising it's a great cash cow to keep them in people's minds between usually increasingly infrequent albums - Mötley Crüe’s 2001 take on the idea, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (written along with Neil Strauss), though came... Continue Reading →
A little while ago I posted a review of notoriously awful movie The Room and its dramatised making-of The Disaster Artist - Now I come to the book on which that second film was based, written by The Room’s co-star Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, to see if I can glean anything more as to... Continue Reading →
During the late 1970s and early 1980s Billy Bragg rode the wave of DIY punk rock to establish himself as a new kind of protest singer for (excuse the pun) a New England. While firmly a part of the punk movement it's easy to trace Bragg's musical roots back to the folk movement that existed... Continue Reading →
If you've read many of my movie reviews on here you've probably seen me use the phrase 'New Hollywood,' meaning a period and style of filmmaking that existed from roughly 1969 to 1980 and typified a change in how American mainstream cinema was made — or so was the intention. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by... Continue Reading →
