Artificial intelligence is all the rage at the moment (plus there’s plenty of rage against it too). AI has blown up in popularity in the past couple of years thanks to large language models or LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude along with generative-AI tools such as Sora and Runway. Many naysayers assert AI is used… Continue reading Will AI Transform Human Thought?
“It’s a hard thing, realising people aren’t who you want them to be.” Such a poignant, sincere line was first heard in the trailer for Scott Cooper’s new Bruce Springsteen biopic, which sees The Bear star Jeremy Allen White tasked with embodying “The Boss”. Yet, it wasn’t until I was sat captivated in the cinema… Continue reading Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere — the man beneath the surface
Picture this – a street in Northeast London, a row of houses, two storeys, lines of windows punctuated by front doors, garden walls, wheelie bins. Look up to the roofs, tiles, chimney pots. Now, imagine a bed on one of those roofs, white wrought iron frame, red crochet blanket. It was here – on the roof – that… Continue reading Power to the people: an interview with artist and filmmaker Daniel Edelstyn
“Artificial intelligence (AI) will be unleashed across the UK to deliver a decade of national renewal”, the UK government has announced. Data centres — the energy-hungry, water-guzzling facilities powering AI — have sprung up at an unprecedented pace across the country. The UK now ranks third globally for data centres, behind only the US and… Continue reading Britain’s data centre frenzy amid the climate emergency
A house in Northern Massachusetts, with its vast and domineering landscape, is the prime mover of Daniel Mason’s ecological fiction North Woods. From this yellow home, constructed prior to the American War of Independence, the natural world unfolds and transforms the lives of its inhabitants. A Puritan couple, a passionate apple farmer and his life-bonded… Continue reading The Second Coming, again and again and again in North Woods
From watching a blockbuster at the cinema to watching a programme on Netflix, the entertainment industry has had to adapt at a rapid pace to be able to keep up with demand from audiences. But to what detriment? For starters, the movie industry has produced multiple classics over the years. This ranges from the 1950s… Continue reading The slop era is upon us
Kim Kardashian has broken the internet again — but this time it’s with fake pubes, not latex. “How funny are these merkins!” the Skims CEO chortled, holding up a pair of her line’s latest release to the camera: faux pubic hair underwear. The reaction has been mixed. Some think it’s marketing brilliance; others are worried… Continue reading What Skims’ latest release can tell us about the state of body image in 2025
Bob Dylan’s early 1970s period is often viewed through the lens of a man in retreat. Following the era-defining snarl of Highway 61 Revisited and the enigmatic isolation of the Woodstock years, Dylan released Self Portrait (1970)—an album so intentionally confounding that Rolling Stone famously opened its review with: “What is this shit?” However, just… Continue reading Bob Dylan’s misunderstood masterpiece — the moral sunrise of New Morning
There needs to be some way to distil a review that enables audiences to navigate the sheer density of productions in one quick bite. With the average ticket becoming prohibitively expensive, it would be impossible for even the most avid theatregoer to watch everything on offer across the UK and West End. Understandably, we turn… Continue reading The Fault in Our Stars — should the UK rethink our quantitative assessment of theatre?
I watched One Battle After Another in the same week that I rewatched Longlegs and Weapons. Following the double bill of cultish mind control and paranormal fascination, I oddly found myself much more disturbed and sweaty watching the plot of Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA)’s new film unfold. A loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel… Continue reading One Battle After Another review — mankind is scarier than any ghost
