Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold is the director of the new, and critically acclaimed, version of Wuthering Heights but she also directed Fish Tank, which won the BAFTA for Best British Film. Because Arnold is an...
View ArticleHim & Her: Season 1
In my slightly sheltered world there has been very little buzz about ‘Him & Her’. This is surprising because the second season recently began in the UK on BBC Three. Let me be upfront: I think...
View ArticleThe Artist
A caveat: I am francophile. I acknowledge this conflict of interests here because I want to put it to one side in order to gush unashamedly about ‘The Artist’. Perhaps the least surprising thing about...
View ArticleGuest Review: The Descendants
Brad Williams is an inveterate film buff who also writes for WhatCulture.com Matt King (George Clooney) is a man with a lot on his plate. Sole custodian of the proverbial family gold mine, all eyes...
View ArticleGuest: Shoe Box Classics #1: Gone Baby Gone
Another review from Brad Williams; an inveterate film buff who also writes for WhatCulture.com These will be films which I loved, and still do, but which seem to be forgotten by most people – the type...
View ArticleOscar Snubs
Brad Williams returns with another guest post With doodies like Moneyball and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close managing to bag a few Oscar nominations, it seems appalling that so many other great...
View ArticleReview: The Woman in Black
Spoiler Alert This is not so much a review which encourages you to avoid or to see this film; it is predictably tense, Daniel Radcliffe is predictably average and all the supporting cast are...
View ArticleMormons at the Movies
Brad returns with thoughts on Mormons and Movies. With Mitt Romney becoming a likely candidate for this year’s presidential election, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is in the public...
View ArticleMusic Review: First Aid Kit –‘The Lion’s Roar’
First Aid Kit, a Swedish folk duo, have recently released their second album, ‘The Lion’s Roar’. Johanna and Klara are sisters whose influences include Fleet Foxes, Joni Mitchell and Bon Ivor. Their...
View ArticleWhy Les Mis should not win any Oscars!
Les Mis has been nominated for a total of 8 eight Oscars. I am not all that worried about Makeup, Sound Mixing, Production Design, and even Music. That leaves four (real) categories and I do not...
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Notes from a Q&A with Sam Mendes held on 14th February, 2013 at the Corpus Room in Cambridge, UK There is no real logic to these notes but they are rather just my attempt to capture what I could....
View ArticleLegitimacy and legacy: Wu Tang’s new concept album
Wu Tang Clan are in the process of releasing two albums. One will be standard fare and the first single sounds pretty good. The second is something entirely different. The ‘conceptus‘ on the album’s...
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