Category: Reviews
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Hozier – Hozier: A Review
Read more: Hozier – Hozier: A ReviewI was rather late to join the Hozier bandwagon. So late, in fact, that when I recently sang Take Me To Church at the top of my lungs, my 11-year-old sister was baffled I even knew the song. (Is my pop culture knowledge now, at the tender age of 19, inferior to that of an…
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Aiming for Oblivion: A Review of The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta
Read more: Aiming for Oblivion: A Review of The Piper’s Son by Melina MarchettaThe Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta Publisher: Candlewick Press Release date: March 1, 2010 328 pages Cover: http://www.penguin.com.au/jpg-large/9780670074235.jpg Everything is fine until Joe Finch Mackee is blown to pieces in a bombing at the London underground, and grief hits his remaining family members hard. The Piper’s Son, a companion novel to Saving Francesca (2005),…
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I thought 5 KM far away enough: A Review of Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000 KM
Read more: I thought 5 KM far away enough: A Review of Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000 KMThe opening shot of this minimalist gem is an amazingly controlled and choreographed twenty-something minute record of intimacy, shot inside a Barcelona apartment in which a couple – photographer Alex (Natalia Tena, Harry Potter’s Nymphadora Tonks) and student Sergi (David Verdaguer, a smouldering Devendra Banhart type) are making love, after which they go about…
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Seasonal Songs
Read more: Seasonal SongsWe can all rejoice once more, as youngster Spring is slowly taking over from old man Winter. A change in temperature, hours of sunlight, scenery, smells and spirit lies in our immediate future. Each season is distinct in a number of things, including the list I just mentioned. What in particular I want to draw…
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Samba
Read more: SambaDuring the Christmas holidays I went to see Samba with a friend of mine. A French film; we felt so cultured. I mostly went to get my money’s worth out of my Pathé Unlimited pass, if I’m completely honest. I hadn’t spent much time at the cinema; the Philosophy of Science exams had kept me…
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