DAN ATKINSON on a novel from ‘the Other 1980s’. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Final Cut: When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Anthony Hopkins as a surrogate James Bond in When Eight Bells Toll (1971). Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Blackshirt
ALWYN TURNER on the long-running, if now largely forgotten, thriller hero Blackshirt. Continue reading
Before It Went Rotten
ALWYN TURNER reads about the pub rock of the 1970s. Continue reading
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
