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Film Review: Terminator Dark Fate (2019)
In a newly-forged alternate reality, augmented human Grace (Mackenzie Davis) is sent back through time to save Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes)...

Martin Vaux
Nov 10, 20198 min read
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Album Review: There Existed An Addiction To Blood by clipping.
The fourth full album from experimental Californian hip-hop band Clipping ploughs a slightly familiar furrow, offering some high highs,...

Martin Vaux
Oct 24, 20197 min read
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Film Review: Joker (2019)
In a Gotham City that feels like a 1970s Scorsese-movie theme park, Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck struggles to determine if his life is...

Martin Vaux
Oct 23, 201912 min read
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Album Review: 2020 by Richard Dawson
The fifth full solo album from Newcastle-born progressive folk musician Richard Dawson overflows with jagged wit, earnest pathos and...

Martin Vaux
Oct 23, 20195 min read
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Album Review: Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The new double-album from Brighton resident Nick Cave and his band, The Bad Seeds, is a shimmering phantasmagoria of joy and grief – a...

Martin Vaux
Oct 6, 20193 min read
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Album Review: uknowhatimsayin? by Danny Brown
In his new album, rap’s resident trickster pops the clutch and runs circles around his contemporaries, all before speeding off, once...

Martin Vaux
Oct 6, 20194 min read
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Film Review: John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
In the third instalment of what has evidently become a global juggernaut of an action franchise, Keanu Reeves returns as the titular John...

Martin Vaux
Sep 22, 20197 min read
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Film Review: Long Shot (2019)
In Long Shot, which was recently released on DVD and streaming services, Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron star as Frank and Charlotte, a...

Martin Vaux
Sep 21, 20195 min read
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Album Review: The Fall of Hobo Johnson by Hobo Johnson
The new album from Sacramento native Hobo Johnson is an offbeat delight, blending profound sadness with breezy frivolity. For those...

Martin Vaux
Sep 16, 20193 min read
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Album Review: Hoodies All Summer by Kano
With Hoodies All Summer, his sixth full-length studio LP, East London’s Kano delivers a sweeping sonic journey teeming with pain, wit,...

Martin Vaux
Sep 1, 20197 min read
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TV Review: Mindhunter
Netflix series Mindhunter is now two seasons through a planned five season run, offering a mix of character study, police procedural and...

Martin Vaux
Aug 24, 20195 min read
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Reviewing TV and Why It Is A Nightmare
Reviewing ongoing TV series is a tricky business. I say this having done an awful lot of it in the past, and part of what makes it so...

Martin Vaux
Aug 24, 20195 min read
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Film Review: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
The new (and, as the poster portentously proclaims, ninth) movie from Quentin Tarantino is a giddy, behind-the-scenes romp it would be...

Martin Vaux
Aug 16, 20194 min read
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Film Review: Midsommar (2019)
The second feature film from budding auteur Ari Aster builds on what made his debut so powerful, exploring the theme of natural cycles in...

Martin Vaux
Aug 14, 20194 min read
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Peterloo and The Masque of Anarchy
So, I am a bit obsessed with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and in recent weeks I have been reading around the author's life and coming to a...

Martin Vaux
Aug 13, 20195 min read
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Marketing Yourself Stinks So Good!
I had a previous website, long ago. You probably never visited it, although if you did then thank you for keeping the faith. This new one...

Martin Vaux
Aug 12, 20193 min read
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