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Charity Swales wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
Gregg Araki refused to sanitize the lives of queer people in his incendiary independent films. Charity Swales takes a closer look at the themes of loneliness and isolation in his work, in parallel with LGBTQ+ […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
Arca’s last album KiCk i saw her deconstructing the realms of hyper-pop, encased in pulsating club-kid beats and collaborations with Björk, SOPHIE and Rosalía. However, with Madre, she embraces classical arr […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
A TV special to mark the 60th anniversary of The Beach Boys could soon be in the works, according to the band’s co-founder Al Jardine.
The special would commemorate 60 years since the band recorded their fi […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
Sacramento band Deftones released the seminal White Pony 20 years ago; it’s a hybrid of alternative metal, post-hardcore and trip-hop that is considered by many as the magnum opus of their career. Moreno’s v […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 4 years, 12 months ago
Appearance is an attribute which can welcome a number of different pre-conceptions of a person, whether that be their history, interests or racial origin. Often embellishments of the body from clothing to tattoos […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 5 years ago
Middle-class life. A corporate job, the extortionate London home, expensive suits and the beautiful partner is instilled as the eudaimonia of society.
Think again. Director Cristian Solimenos’ thriller The Glass […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 5 years ago
During the COVID-19 epidemic, existential-crisis is something that many of us have faced head-on as lockdown means we are encased within the way-too familiar four walls of our rooms. As the ‘new normal’ has led […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 5 years ago
Anecdotes of the simultaneously idiosyncratic and mundane characters of everyday life pervade the narrative of the latest single ‘Enough is Never Enough’ from Galway band The Clockworks.
With Joycean vig […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 5 years ago
A film like The Exorcist needs little introduction.
As one of the most notorious films in cinematic history, the expectancy set that precipitates The Exorcist has instilled its place in popular culture. […]
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Charity Swales wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Everyone’s favourite gothic blueprints The Addams Family is set to return to the screen, 56 years after they made their live-action TV debut. Deadline reports that Tim Burton – the purveyor of pop-victorian g […]
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