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Ray LaMontagne Part Of The Light
“Such A Simple Thing” suggests that Ray Lamontagne has gone back to his roots as the man who inspired a... read more
Parquet Courts Wide Awake!
Parquet Courts have made some stellar music over the last few years, but it’s been hard to shake the feeling... read more
Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel
Since stumbling fully formed from Melbourne five years ago, Courtney Barnett has proved to be a singular artist, mixing... read more
Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids An Angel Fell
The Pyramids’ story is something of a jazz fairytale: having released a few cosmic private-press records in the late ’70s... read more
latest film reviews
Hounds Of Love
Australian horror movies are a curious mix of all-comers. The granddaddy, of course, is Picnic At Hanging Rock, Peter Weir’s extraordinary film from 1975 about the disappearance of a party of schoolgirls. Nick Cave’s 1988 prison drama Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead is, to an extent, a horror film –... read more
To Live And Die In L.A.
The 1980s was ripe for a certain type of neo-noir film. Michael Mann’s Thief, from 1981, is very much the starting point for those movies (to an extent, Mann continued to explore similar terrain in a more accessible form with Miami Vice as the decade progressed). But the list goes... read more
The Square
To Stockholm, then, where Christian (Claes Bang) is the stylish director of a contemporary art museum. As The Square opens, Christian is preparing to launch a new exhibition, The Square – a “sanctuary of trust and caring. Within its boundaries, we all share equal rights and obligations.” At the same... read more
