Tom Willis

It’s upstate New York, 1979, post-Vietnam. Set in the Latowski family’s front kitchen-come-bar, Tom Willis’ Electric Nebraska consumes the greying myth of the ‘American Dream’ with such dexterity you’d be forgiven for thinking it had been written by Mr Miller himself. Alongside smatterings of Donnie Brasco and his ‘fuggedaboutit’...

“And everybody wants to see you fall, that’s why they always love to get you high”. …Or so singer-songwriter Ryan Adams sings in his track “The Rescue Blues” from 2001’s Gold. The recent release of Asif Kapadia’s critically acclaimed documentary, Amy, detailing the life of Grammy-award winning and Mercury-prize nominated...

As time rolls closer to the end of the decade, many critics are already claiming the past ten to fifteen years as the “Golden Age of Television”. Since HBO graced the world of TV crime drama with David Chases’ seminal and groundbreaking Sopranos and David Simon’s uber-realistic The Wire,...