Latest CD reviews [ view all ]
Victrola favourites
review by Ian Simmons
Misogyny, yodelling and songs about pigs - unmissable
Rosemarie
review by Ian Simmons
Break out the patchouli, guys...
Revolutions
review by Douglas Messerli
Almodóvar's Volver is a kind of 'revolution' is several senses.
Some things just stick in your mind
review by Ian Simmons
Vashti Bunyan emerges from the shadows of the English Phil Spector manqué
The Rough Guide to yodel
review by Ian Simmons
For fans of sarcastic yodelling everywhere.
Latest book reviews [ view all ]
A Farewell to Schmaltz
review by Jim Chaffee
Tom Bradley's Even the Dog Won't Touch Me.
The articulate dead
review by Tom Ruffles
Enjoyable but uncritical
Science in contemporary fiction
review by Jim Chaffee
Variations on a theme of Richard Powers.
Mrs Miller's gift
review by Tom Ruffles
Vintage Spiritualist audio recordings get dusted down.
Weimar cinema
review by Tom Ruffles
There was more to the period than the Kit Kat Club and green nail polish.
Latest film reviews [ view all ]
Suna No Onna & Rikyu
review by Douglas Messerli
Two films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Two Pabst operas
review by Douglas Messerli
Looking back at Pandora's Box and The Threepenny Opera.
Starting over
review by Douglas Messerli
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata is lugubrious but engaging.
Cemetery of garbage
review by Douglas Messerli
An impressive, if rambling, look at the Neapolitan crime group Camorra in Gomorrah.
The curious case of Benjamin Button
review by Douglas Messerli
A strange (and strangely redemptive) film...
