Tom Watchorn

Ever the alluringly spiky contrarian, John Grant heralded his third album with an unnerving promo vid. Pairing Sylvanian Family quaintness with The Shining, the video depicted blood-drenched Grant dressed all mom-n-apple-pie wielding a gore spattered mallet as the title track relayed overhead. It’s all in much the same vein...

Tom Watchorn continues to review the Mayhem Film Festival for Impact Film & Television. Day Three After the surprise disappointment of Day Two’s final film Stung, it was something of a reassurance that Day Three – the first of the two true marathon sessions and in hindsight prime for...

Impact Film and Television review Mayhem Film Festival, held in Nottingham, 15-18 October. Day One One thing to say for the tidal-waves-of-cinema-to-the-face approach which film festivals provide, beyond the smug satisfaction of endurance challenges, is the fact that by the very nature of the exhibition format the highlights of...

Though he’s only been working for a fraction of the time of Woody Allen, M. Night Shyamalan may well end up in the same basket, where every new release is heralded with lots of questioning cries: “is this one his return to form?” While no means set to make...

Ah, University. Home to some of the best years of your life, and some of the worst memories. Whether you’re an eager fresher or a dedicated returner, there’s always time for crazy parties, mischievous mayhem, and maybe even some studying too. In our latest scrapbook our writers reveal their favourite...

Once dubbed ‘the future of rock ‘n’ roll’, Bruce Springsteen has since become, in his own words, “the hardest working white man in show business”, with mammoth, exhilarating four-hour concerts a staple of his touring career. But Springsteen, for an artist with a forty year body of work, also...

Early on in 45 Years, Tom Courtenay’s Geoff receives a letter from Switzerland pertaining to a significant event (which I will not reveal here) which occurred long before he met his current wife, Charlotte Rampling’s Kate. How quickly this news seeps into and to quote Kate “taints” everything they have...