This month featuring, among others: Peter Hujar’s Day, Rental Family, Mercy, No Other Choice, It Was Just an Accident, Nouvelle Vague, Labyrinth, The Brotherhood of Satan and some Wallace & Gromit. Peter Hujar’s Day (2025), Ira Sachs – Resolutely nothing happens very slowly,…
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things he found on the internet this week. It is now in its fourteenth season. Sign up…
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things he found on the internet this week. It is now in its fourteenth season. Sign up…
This month featuring, among others, Stereolab, The Last Dinner Party, and not quite Blur. A Certain Ratio: Tribeca and ACR:NYC 1980, Trades Hall, Walthamstow, 1 December – A double bill of films which will be the closest I ever get to seeing…
Happy new year! As has become a tradition, I will be at the helm of the Guardian’s live blog for NYE later today. Before that we published a First Edition newsletter that I am rather fond of, as myself and…
A double helping as I’m back at work full-time which has slowed down my afternoon cinema trips, but nevertheless I got to see Bugonia, Palestine 36, Animalia, The Shining, The Alien Dead, Train Dreams, plus big screen music experiences from…
No Thursday news quiz this week as it is Christmas day, but why not treat yourself to the first ever First Edition quiz of the year? Seeing as I’m temporarily one of the writers on the Guardian’s daily news newsletter,…
I usually post something on Christmas Eve because it is my blog-o-versary, although I realise it risks coming across like one of those family circular letters. Thank you for continuing to read my personal blog posts, more than two decades…
I mentioned earlier this week that I had spent a day in Derby at the beginning of the month at the Quatermass event, and off the back of that I am particularly pleased with today’s First Edition newsletter. In it…
I had some fun on Sunday going to the annual dachshund Xmas walk in Hyde Park, which I also used as an excuse to report on it and continue my drive to become the Guardian’s official dachshund correspondent on a…