• Film Review: Leto

    Leto (pronounced “lee-air-ta”) translates into ‘summer’ or ‘summertime’. It’s this choice of title that foreshadows what is an intrinsically reminiscent film. Based on the memoirs of Natalya Naumenko, Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto invites the audience to 1980s Leningrad where, through Natalya’s eyes, we learn about the development of the city’s lively rock...
  • Film Review – Heart of a Dog

    Last night she dreamed she was pregnant. She dreamed she was giving birth. The doctors handed her the new-born in a blanket. It was her dog. A Rat Terrier, specifically. But of course for the dog to come out, the doctors had needed to get the dog in first....
  • Album Review: Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression

    Iggy Pop is the last of the iconic seventies art-rock heroes. There’s that iconic image of David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy together in their youth, and for many the pantheon really starts and ends with those three names. Lou Reed died. Bowie is dead. Now Iggy has a...