“Joe and Ben are rehearsing a play but there’s one stumbling block. Ben can’t die.”
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[Drama] A Man of Few Words — R.W. Haynes
“Now Mr. Walter, I know you have to use the words available to you, but that one wasn’t really timed to please.”
[Fiction] ‘Flight 103’ — Fraser Bryant
“We’re trapped. I rip off my seatbelt and stand, then sit, then stand once again.”
[Essay] Consuming Fragments: Performance Art and Spectatorship — Jasper Llewelyn
“Although championed as the quintessential practice of contemporary postmodern practice, recent trends for disrupting the spectator’s viewing process through fragmentation are based on a long history of performance and installation.”
[Essay] Amazon, e-books and the State of Publishing Today — Daniel Formby
“If authors cannot survive, the whole industry will go down with them.”
[Poetry] ‘Of the Fauns’ — R.G. Foster
“She led me into a copse, / All around was ochre.”
[Short film] Ted, Fred & Deb — Harry Sherriff
“Fred & Deb are assassins based in Manchester. They have been sent on an important job by their boss, Ted.”
[Short film] Lonely Guy — Harry Sherriff
“A love letter to bus-stop weirdos.”
[Fiction] ‘Zoology’ — Jacob Schroeder
“As the little girl and her mother passed by, the animals went through the motions of confinement.”
[Fiction] ‘At the Border’ — Michael Loveday
“Streetlights smudge the walls with amber.”
[Essay] Fade to Black: Film Noir and The Fatality of Genre — Louis Armand
“Reminiscent of Hemingway’s assault on overwritten, adjectival prose, noir is short on metaphysics and restricts its action to the surface of the image.”
[Short film] Red-Handed — Harry Sherriff
“Harry thinks it’s safe to go the shops for five minutes and leave Jonny alone in the flat…”
[Essay] Life in film: Hugo Gélin’s Comme des Fréres — Gergely Károly
“The film plays brilliantly with emotional nuance.”
[Review] Goya in the Wilderness: Louis Armand’s Abacus — Jim Chaffee
“If Armand is lucky this book will be recognized for the important literary work it is.”
[Essay] Tender Sexuality: On Todd Haynes’s Carol — Lucas Hill-Paul
“Haynes lets his LGBT characters live and breathe as characters, rather than impressions.”
[Poetry] — Amelia Madan
“limbs that glide / as they tread the paths we follow”
[Essay] Star Wars and Objectivity — Lucas Hill-Paul
“George Lucas’s passion project has wriggled its way through almost every form of modern art and culture.”
[Fiction] — Konstantina Sozou-Kyrkou
“It was impossible for my father to keep still.”
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