Netflix An anime populated by anthropomorphized animals, "Beastars" is a malleable allegory (it's sometimes referred to as "Zootopia" for adults) set right at the intersection of high school angst and film noir brooding. At Cherryton Academy, relations between predator and prey have been hangi...
The band who criticised capitalism onMoney, paidClare Torry£30for her input onThe Great Gig In The Sky, less than a third of what aDark Side of the MoonImmersion set costs. In a nineties interview for the DutchPenthousea bitterAlan Parsonsrecalled how the four gentlemen in the band nev...
A single scream wakes the entire castle. Morgan le Fay has another vision. Again, it’s about Gawain but this time he’s not alone. This is the climax that turns teen angst into a mad obsession. The concepts of guilt and innocence don’t matter. Not when you know what you saw and ...
I wanted desperately to do what publishers such as Persephone and Boiler House Press were doing — curating, championing — and was just as eager not to fall into the category of the print on demand publishers specializing in literary grave-robbing, pillaging the Internet Archive and other source...
Stephen Glover felt that Children Crossing suffered from “a vein of unlikelihood and angst which would make the deepest sceptic blanch.” In his review of Tit for Tat, John Braine showed himself an Angry Young Man become a Fussy Old Critic. The book, he wrote, “breaks the prime rule of...
I always have fun making this list but, for the first time, it was easy as well as fun. There was no struggling over what belong in each spot and no angst-ridden hours spent juggling the merits of one book over another in deciding which deserved to make the list. These are, without...
“Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life”. I could have had a little less of Funder’s 21st century writerly angst, but it comes from a place of knowledge and identification. Reading it immediately afterHomage to Cataloniaconvinced me completely of Funder’s thesis: that “my wife” was ...
“Custody” is a film I’ve spilled much virtual ink on, first on Vague Visages in a capsule review for its appearance in the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: Xavier Legrand is not wasting a second of his time behind the camera. His first directorial ou...
Kevin Lincoln,Scott Tobias,Keith Phipps,Noel Murray,Jenna Scherer,Amy Nicholson,Tim Grierson,Eric Hynes,Bilge Ebiri,David Fear,Kory Grow,Sean T. Collins,Kristen Yoonsoo Kim,Brian Tallerico,Stephen Garrett,Judy Berman,Vikram Murthi,Esther Zuckerman,Jason Bailey ...
Armstrong stomps his foot, exactly as a toddler would. “The company is mine! Lincoln can’t have it!” I raise a hand, half to quiet my brother and also to find out what the freaking deal is. “Whoa, let’s back this bus up.Can someone explain what’s going on?” ...