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Some thoughts on that Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer…

“Chewie, we’re home!”

D’Angelo’s “Black Messiah”: some first thoughts

When Thom Yorke sneaked out his new solo album a few months back, I managed to hold out for 66 hours before writing a review of "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes". Since waking up early yesterday morning to a lot of very excited Americans on my Twitter timeline, I've been playing D'Angelo's "Black Messiah" many times: another rich and complex album that seems fundamentally ill-suited to any kind of snap judgment reviewing.

Some thoughts on the return of John Carpenter and Alejando Jodorowsky

A couple of press releases appeared in my inbox over the last few days, both announcing the surprising return of two increasingly elusive filmmakers.

Some thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar

The cosmology of Christopher Nolan's new film, Interstellar, offers an instructive analogy for the career of the director himself.

Some thoughts on David Fincher’s Gone Girl

At the conclusion of Se7en, his second film as director, David Fincher memorably gave us Gwyneth Paltrow’s severed head in a box. In many respects, he has been producing heads from boxes ever since.

Some more thoughts on Kate Bush and Alice Gerrard

On Sunday, Kate Bush inadvertently staged a one-woman assault on the British charts. This week, 11 records in the Official UK Albums Chart are by Bush – not bad, really, for a woman who has only really released nine new studio albums in the past 36 years.
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