Attendees: Please Take Notes on Camp!
When I heard that the theme of this year’s Met Ball was based on Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’ I was both excited and...
John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’: A Hard-Hitting Wake-Up Call
In ‘The Loop or the Vortex’, Kader Attia reminds us of a limitation Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were confronted with as they...
‘Velvet Buzzsaw’: Artfully Dodge this Horror
I am usually the first to avoid horror films, but the trailer for Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw intrigued me. A horror film concerning the art...
Notes on Camp: ‘Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!’
Picture the scene. You’re in your most splendid garb, nursing a double vodka orange between the murky hours of 12am and 4am in The Flying...
Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Edward II’ and Tom Stuart’s ‘After Edward’ at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Th
Tom Stuart and Beru Tessema in ‘Edward II’ at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (Photo: Marc Brenner) I would not usually be compelled to write...
'Mary Queen of Scots': Women in Tudor Britain
As I am currently on the Constructing Empires Constellation Course, I was particularly excited to see two historical movies, Mary Queen...
Midnight in a Perfect World - DJ Shadow's 'Entroducing'
It’s midnight. I’m walking home, I see nothing but dark buildings and orange streetlights. Traffic goes by nearby, I can hear the wind in...
The Lady from the Sea – 5 Stars
I begin with a caveat. I don’t much like Ibsen. To be honest, I don’t much like a lot of ‘classic’ old (male) writers. I find Chekhov...
Dennis Severs’ House Review
Here is a sensation I would like to bottle as a sal volatile for monotone days: that of emerging from a darkened movie theatre into the...
The Favourite: Duck Racing, Voguing and Sapphism in the Court of Queen Anne.
It’s a Tuesday night at a cinema in Peckham, we’re sat in Screen 4. The atmosphere feels giddy with anticipation for what we’re about to...