Cheer up, it's only the end of the world. Dave Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick combine in apocalyptic fashion to deliver a Top 5 worthy of Doomsday itself. It's fun, honest! Plus, it gives the guys the on-the-spot chance to conjure up their…

Fans of the horror genre will no doubt be familiar with filmmaker Alexandre Aja. The French director made a splash in the early 2000s with High Tension (also known as Switchblade Romance in the UK), a hyper-violent, nasty yet well-made and…

Developing a culturally rich repertoire that seamlessly translates internationally is a winning formula for captivating fans worldwide. Canadian vocalist and sitar player Mohamed Assani has achieved this in spades with his latest release,…

Fried Barry is the directorial debut of Liverpool-born South Africa-based director Ryan Kruger. The movie - dubbed this “Ryan Kruger thing” in the opening credits - is an expansion of his 2017 experimental short of the same name. Made over…

Political filmmaking is a rich catalogue in the history of German cinema. As far back as the Weimar era, political concerns find a revolutionary outlet in the Expressionist masterpieces of filmmakers like Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. In Nazi…

The music of David Balfe may draw on a range of identifiable influences—the house-tinted EDM of Jamie xx, James Blake's conscious electro R&B, the post dubstep of Mount Kimbie, and The Streets' gritty UK garage beats are all notable…

It started in Hospital: My Writing Life Francesco Pacifico, a novelist based in Rome, wrote Coronavirus Dispatches for the New York literary magazine, n+1. Number eight in the series was entitled A Breakup Letter to my Writing…

As much as there are innovative and mesmerising electronic artists out there, it is getting more and more difficult to stand out in what is a saturated market. Plenty of subfields have been plumbed to death, like digitally infused post-rock…