Features Features Chinese Puzzle Chinese Puzzleis the third instalment in the series that began with 2002’s The Spanish Apartment. Picking up 10 years after its predecessor Russian Dolls, the...
Features Features Like Father, Like Son Hirokazu Koreeda’s Like Father, Like Sonbegins with a scene in which Keita, six, and his parents attend an interview at a fancy-looking elementary school. This...
Features Features Dan Sultan : Blackbird ALBUM OF THE WEEK Rock has reached an interesting, albeit dark, phase. Every band now needs to drop the songs about sex, drugs and rock’n’roll...
Features Features Eagulls : Eagulls INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK Holy Ian Curtis: this ain’t no sunny pop record. English post-punk up-and-comers Eagulls have already gained a metaphoric mountain of...
Features Features DMA’s : DMA’s None of the five tracks on DMA’s debut EP pays direct homage to one artist in particular, but the Sydney trio don’t hide the fact...
Features Features Mr Little Jeans : Pocketknife Three years ago, Norway’s Monica Birkenes released a slow-washed re-imagination of Arcade Fire’s ‘The Suburbs’ that sent the internet bananas. Under the moniker Mr Little...
Features Features Slates : Taiga Slates make robust and rugged-voiced punk rock – more chunky than dangerous, more laboured than unpredictable and more solemn than frenzied. That said, Taiga’s first...
Features Features Black Lips : Underneath The Rainbow Over the last decade, Black Lips have produced a wonderfully raucous collection of psychedelic punk gems that have influenced a plethora of acolytes. The seventh...
Features Features Pixies : Indie Cindy At first glance, the first full-length release in 23 years from alt-rock legends Pixies is as welcome as it is peculiar. It’s welcome because, well,it’s...
Features Features Only Lovers Left Alive The mania for vampires, so inescapable on our screens in the last few years, seems to have ebbed, replaced by plucky teenagers fighting authoritarian governments...
Features Features The Other Woman Following in the footsteps of many ofCameron Diaz’s recent comedies,The Other Womanisn’t very funny and it isn’t very good. The movie tells the story of...
Features Features The Invisible Woman The Invisible WomanmarksRalph Fiennes’ second foray into the world of directing, and it does not disappoint. Written byAbi MorganofShameandThe Hour, the film tells the true...
