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theindiependent wrote a new post 5 years, 11 months ago

Understated, poetic lyricism glints with chest-twisting nostalgia throughout Celeste’s newest EP, Lately.

A mix of soul, jazz, and R&B groove, Celeste’s style stretches comfortably across a plethora of dif […]

Elliott Jones wrote a new post 5 years, 11 months ago

After the huge critical praise and deserved Mercury Prize nomination for his 2016 album Made In The Manor, Kano returned in 2019 with his latest project, entitled Hoodies All Summer. On his latest album, Kano […]

Megan Roxburgh wrote a new post 5 years, 11 months ago

Megan Roxburgh rounds up all of the January Games releases.

Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training
Gaming’s favourite neuroscientist makes his Switch debut with the latest in the Brain Training series. As with prev […]

Elliott Jones wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Mad Max: Fury Road

When George Miller’s cult franchise Mad Max was given the green light for a reboot starring Tom Hardy as the titular Max, there were plenty of sceptics in the world of film that were w […]

Tommy Farrell wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has everything you would expect from a Quentin Tarantino film: fetishistic depictions of violence, snappy (pop-culture laden) dialogue, a touch of […]

Chris Burns wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Good Time

Josh and Benny Safdie might be the talk of the film world right now with Uncut Gems but 2017’s Good Time remains one of the decade’s finest films. After a bank heist goes horribly wrong, Con […]

Jack Roberts wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Tangerine

With the many technological advances that have graced our phones during the last decade, it was only a matter of time when someone would use them for cinematic purposes. Give a person a camera […]

Steph Green wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

120 Beats Per Minute

Robin Campillo’s outstanding 120 Beats Per Minute is a film that stays with you long after the credits have finished rolling. A thudding, loud, fist-clenching, fist-pumping, go […]

James Nash wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Lana Del Rey has always had a sort of other-worldly ability to capture a specific moment in time, and then write an album about it. But whilst previous releases have relied on nostalgia for the Hollywood glam of […]

Libby Briggs wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Moonrise Kingdom

If you’re not familiar with the work of Wes Anderson, you’re truly missing out. Every shot he takes looks like a perfectly painted picture and each story both thrilling and hea […]

Emma Morgan wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Florida (2018)

Lauren Groff’s second collection of short stories, Florida, plunges us into a hot and humid world, where swamp creatures slither over the thresholds of human existence, and t […]

Samm Anga wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Raw

Upon release, Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016) set itself apart as an unapologetic and uncompromising watch, as tales of cinema-goers walking out during disturbing scenes clouded it in controversy. The g […]

Sarah Turner wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Without Fear is the debut album by Irish singer-songwriter, Dermot Kennedy, which was released in October of this year. The album was met with notable success; success which is very much deserved.

The opening […]

Steph Green wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

In a short documentary that screened prior to the 20th-anniversary re-release of Eyes Wide Shut, Warner Bros. VP Julian Senior reveals how Stanley Kubrick was “fascinated by holidays.” The director, who not […]

Steph Green wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago

Cinema has been a lot this year. We’ve seen Robert Pattinson masturbating furiously in a stinky sea enclave, people burnt alive at a Swedish summer retreat, sad space travel, an imaginary Hitler, d […]

Holly Patrick wrote a new post 6 years ago

Hearing the news that one of your all-time favourite artists is bringing another album out induces both feelings of euphoria and dread in equal measure. With three excellent albums in their repertoire already, […]

James Nash wrote a new post 6 years ago

Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In our 15th and final feature, James Nash explores why Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is his show of the year, the decade, and the century.
What more could po […]

Jack Roberts wrote a new post 6 years ago

“Drank a lot of coffee today!”, “I love movies!” and “I just lay down and cried!”: just a smattering of the lyrics that you’ll find in this album that I relate to with my body and soul.

Titanic Rising is sha […]

Holly Patrick wrote a new post 6 years ago

Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In today’s feature, Holly Patrick takes a look at an arguably underrated sit-com, Zooey Deschanel’s New Girl…
Good American sitcoms were hard to come by in th […]