One-line spoiler-free movie reviews for March
This is a bumper month – I saw a lot of cinema – featuring: a brilliant silent film built entirely from archive train footage, a promising AI nightmare that spectacularly lost its way, giant fuck off radioactive ants and a…
Thoughts on … Trains (2024) – Maciej Drygas
How archive footage of trains tells the story of a continent – and a century One of my favourite things I’ve watched in recent years is From the Sea to the Land Beyond, directed by Penny Woolcock and with a…
One-line spoiler-free movie reviews for February
This month featuring: existential parenting panic, analogue Welsh folk horror, rock-history revisionism and the worst movie ever made (with additional UFOs wobbling on visible strings and themed cocktails). Rabbit Trap (2025), Bryn Chainey – Wow, I absolutely loved this. Creepy…
One-line gig reviews for January and February
This month featuring, among others: Suede x 2, The Umlauts, Maxïmo Park and Kaiser Chiefs, plus a bit of theatre from Inside No. 9 and the Double R Club – and the moment I was absolutely done with The Wolfgang…
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in January 2026
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,…
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in December 2025
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…
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in November and December 2025
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…
Quatermass at last: a day with Nigel Kneale’s sci-fi in Derby
To my shame, despite being a massive science fiction nerd, I had never seen a single second of any of the various Quatermass television serials or films. That changed earlier this month, when I spent a day at the Quatermass…
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in November 2025
This month featuring, among others, Wet Leg, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Numan, Adam Ant, ABC, Fields of the Nephilim, Desperate Journalist, Swans, Sananda Maitreya, Toyah, and me literally annoying Robert Fripp … Heathen Apostles, O2 Forum, Kentish Town, 1 Nov – Sort of…
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in October 2025
This month featuring, among others, Nadine Fuckin’ Shah, Self Esteem, Kathryn Joseph, Idlewild, Level 42, Sting, Duran Duran, some random at an O’Neill’s in Watford, and not Roland Gift … Roland Gift, Palladium, London, 2 Oct – I walked out of this…