Mike Watt

Mia Farrow, Female Erasure & The Vampire Daddies Of Hollywood

In an extract form issue two of Somesuch Stories, through the lens of Mia Farrow Phliipa Snow considers the vampiric effect on and reaction of Hollywood's women of its men – the twisted and plentiful “Daddies”, looking for their daughter binary, to feed from and reshape

Sob Story: Biutiful And The Cinema Of Despair

While Biutiful is in many ways _Amores Perros_ and _Babel_ director Alejandro González Iñárritu's return to form, Toby Manning wonders if its unflinching realism is really the antidote to cynical Hollywood fantasies

Lost In Translations, In The Library Of Babel

As translation-focused publishers move out from the fringes and closer to the forefront of the industry (and our bookcases), Thomas Brewster considers the implications of our Anglo-Saxon obsession and the twisting of language

WATCH: John Robb On The Holy Bible

Second in our series of interviews from The Holy Bible: My Testament doc

A Random Lie? Reflections On The Hunt

Basia Lewandowksa Cummings ponders some of the issues raised by Thomas Vinterberg's false accusation drama, which is in UK cinemas now

East London Comics and Arts Festival This Weekend

ELCAF returns to East London this weekend for its 4th year

How Live Aid Ruined My Life, By John Doran

In an extract from Jolly Lad, John Doran remembers how in 1985 Live Aid was one of the three events that set him off the straight and narrow into two decades of depression and alcoholism. Illustration by Krent Able

Stroll On: The London Perambulator Reviewed

Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand contribute to a fascinating documentary about eccentric urban explorer Nick Papadimitriou

Scream Queens: Will 2020 Be The Year Of Feminist Horror?

Grappling with urgent, relevant questions about gender, a new wave of women and feminist directors are set to take the horror genre by storm this year. Tia Glista finds how they are making their voices heard.

Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton’s The Unloved Reviewed

Hannah Gregory finds much to laud in Samantha Morton's gritty directorial debut

LIVE REPORT: The Human League

Touring in support of the kind of retrospective that the band, and their fans, truly deserve, Ian Wade finds the Human League showcasing their versatility and their steadfast commitment to being — as the record says — "a very British synthesizer group." (Photos by Maria Jefferis.)

Museum Of Love

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