There’s two voices on The Weeknd’s new album After Hours. It only dawns on you halfway through that there’s now a duality and a conflict to Abel Tesfaye. Ever since 2011’s Trilogy mixtape, The Weeknd’s sombre marque of self destruction, casual sex and Class A’s has become a hallmark for the Canadian singer. However, After Hours sees Tesfaye stripping […]Read More
You were my life but life is far away from fair Billie Eilish isn’t messing around. The 18 year-old’s hugely awaited Bond song, ‘No Time To Die’, dropped this morning and the most immediate takeaway is just how uncompromising the song is. ‘No Time To Die’ manages to walk the line between being very Bond […]Read More
Parasite, Director Bong Joon-Ho’s masterful satirical rumination on class, was undoubtedly the night’s most deserved winner, and in a rare case of the Academy being all very finger on the pulse, it turned out to be the night’s biggest winner. The film won four of the six awards it was nominated for and went home […]Read More
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, Connie and Nick go on the run, but as the night unfolds so does a neon stained canvas […]Read More
Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! Christopher Burns takes us through why Donald Glover’s Atlanta made his list… As its creator once put “I’m not making a TV show, I am making an experience”, Atlanta has transformed over the course of its two seasons. Donald Glover’s show about four African-Americans finding their […]Read More
Titanic Dir: James Cameron This list probably could’ve been entirely made up of James Cameron’s 1980/90’s output. I was 11 years old and in the run-up to the release I recorded a special making-of documentary on VHS and I watched it over and over until I finally got to see the film itself on the cinema. I […]Read More
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