Another geeky one this week it looks like folks, thanks to my picking up X-Men: First Class on DVD for a mere £3. First Class is a decent enough superhero film. It’s not quite as good as I remember it being in the cinema, featuring plot holes and some corny dialogue that really does not leave you wondering where the Professor X-Magneto slash fiction comes from. I know I’ll watch it again and again, but why? Any other okay...
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The then-US Senator Barack Obama saw fit to entitle his second book, and Presidential calling card, The Audacity of Hope. However, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that hope is “in reality the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.” So, um, so much for that. Nietzsche also had some choice things to say about the emotion of compassion, considering it the invention and preserve of the weak and cowardly, as well as the cornerstone of...
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9.5/10 This achingly, spine-tinglingly beautiful debut album from Phildel already stakes a very strong claim as an Album of the Year contender. It really is that good. Haunting, atmospheric, throbbing with a living heartbeat, The Disappearance of the Girl places Phildel’s gorgeous voice front and centre and wraps it in the most wonderful shell of sound. Calling to mind Kate Bush, Bat For Lashes, Bjork, Amy Lee and, occasionally, the intimacy of Laura Marling, Phildel conjures a world of...
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