ALWYN TURNER reads about the pub rock of the 1970s. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Final Cut: Glenda Jackson
SIMON MATTHEWS pays tribute to Glenda Jackson, award-winning actress and mayor manqué. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
ALWYN TURNER on a 1940 Poirot novel that worries about the abuse of political power. Continue reading
Desperately seeking…
Some personal ads from porn mags of the 1970s and ’80s. lovingly selected by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Final Cut: Rocinante (1986)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a tour of downtrodden Britain in the Thatcher years. Continue reading
Settin’ the Woods on Fire
ALWYN TURNER celebrates his first-ever (and perhaps only-ever) award. Continue reading
Final Cut: British Lion Films
From The Green Man to The Man Who Fell to Earth, SIMON MATTHEWS on Britain’s nationalised film company. Continue reading
Final Cut: Everybody Loves Sunshine (1999)
SIMON MATTHEWS on one of David Bowie’s lesser known movies. Continue reading
Time takes a cigarette
ALWYN TURNER on the style and stupidity of the cigarettes that shaped his smoking life. Continue reading
Final Cut: Now Barabbas Was a Robber (1949)
SIMON MATTHEWS on an anti-death-penalty movie written by the brother of a prime minister. Continue reading
The censoring of Sexton Blake
ALWYN TURNER wonders why he’s being protected from the prejudices of Edwardian pulp fiction. Continue reading
Final Cut: Children of Men (2006)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches the screen adaptation of PD James’s dystopian novel. Continue reading
