Brighton Rock

My friend and I filling the gaps in our reading by reading those Classics we “should have” but never did, all of those unread Penguin Modern Classics sitting unopened on the shelf. First up was Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. Jumping to the Afterword, or the Note to American Readers, if I may, I have [...]

Girl Meets Boy

“I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the new wine makes the old bottles explode,” wrote Angela Carter, which Ali Smith quotes in her introduction to Carter’s Wise Children. This innovation of -and passion for- giving new readings to old texts is something Ali Smith does herself in Girl Meets [...]

Buttons for Eyes

I have preview tickets for Coraline (it doesn’t open in the UK until May 8th, and I’m seeing it on May 6th, at the NFT on the Southbank). Even better is that it is in 3D format. Oh yeah and even better than that? The director, Henry Selick (who also directed The Nightmare Before Christmas) [...]

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