Classic Album: Can – Future Days
August 13th, 2015 | by John Higgins
This may seem a pretentious review. It probably is. I may well be using words like “oneiric”*, a word that …
August 13th, 2015 | by John Higgins
This may seem a pretentious review. It probably is. I may well be using words like “oneiric”*, a word that …
July 27th, 2015 | by John Higgins
Eden is a cautionary tale based on the life of director Mia Hansen-Love’s brother Sven and shows the dizzying highs …
July 22nd, 2015 | by John Higgins
As Shot Glass Theatre enjoys its fifteen month anniversary co-founder Joseph Nawaz and I sit back and toast our success …
September 19th, 2014 | by John Higgins
Telly used to be odd. Often that oddness was on purpose. I’m not talking about the “Alan Partridge pitching on …
June 25th, 2014 | by John Higgins
I’m none too smart, a sumo-intellectual at best, but people often assume I am clever because of my large forehead, …
June 11th, 2014 | by John Higgins
We open on a blood red, pixilated screen, so tightly rotoscoped that Ken Morse must have had to have a …
May 16th, 2014 | by John Higgins
Mark Hollis sits alone in his front room. He is tall, shaggy haired and slightly stooped. Frameless glasses are perched …
April 24th, 2014 | by John Higgins
Francois Mitterrand, the French president at the time of Serge Gainsbourg’s death, called him, in a surprisingly emotional obituary, “our …
March 12th, 2014 | by John Higgins
The World of Twist were, and are, an enigma, wrapped in a conundrum, cocooned in carpet off-cuts and bundled out …