Close
Close
  • Nine

    Nine

    5th January 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    First a confession. I dislike musicals. No, that’s untrue. I loathe musicals. I loathe them in much the same way that I loathe Ryanair baggage charges. Or root canal surgery. Or the post-pub, Cro-magnon wank-a-thon, Danny Dyer's Hardest Men. I just cannot see the appeal. All that breathy over enunciation. The razzle. Yeah! The dazzle. Yeah! YEAH! The big, lungy singing and the high kicking and the weary and ultimately...

    Read more »

  • Review: Broken Embraces – Cruz stars but Almodovar shines

    Review: Broken Embraces – Cruz stars but Almodovar shines

    25th September 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    I have arrived late to Almodovar’s Broken Embraces but it was worth the wait…I think. Like so many of the Spanish auteur’s films his latest is a hyper-stylised, luxuriant and lavish affair, dripping in sensuality, and if you reach the end with a slight feeling of heady drunkenness it is only because you have been so thoroughly seduced by the extravagance of it all.  It’s rather like Christmas lunch. Delicious...

    Read more »

CONTRIBUTOR

Nick Clarke

Nick Clarke

Working in advertising, writing for a number of national newspaper and magazine titles and currently clawing his way through his PhD in film, Nick has nurtured a passion for media and the arts for over a decade. He tries not to take himself too seriously but finds it difficult. As such he harbours the faintly ridiculous belief that one- day he will write a definitive, universally lauded book on a subject that he thinks he knows something about. Given that he is fanatical about Soul music, 1970s cinema and boxing, it might be about one of those. Given that he also is very indecisive and non-committal it also might not be.