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Following on from last week’s 2017 excursion, we head not very far at all to 2018. Phantom Thread. Annihilation. Utøya – July 22. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Shoplifters. Twin Fantasy – Car Seat Headrest. Some Rap Songs – Earl Sweatshirt. Joy as an Act of Resistance – Idles. DAYTONA – Pusha T. Crumbling –Continue reading “Week 14: 2018.”

Drunk. Follow Thundercat down the weird ass rabbit hole of inebriation; Drunk is a cool, funky jazz album that makes reference to Thundercat’s Motown and soul roots. Along for the journey are some of the most popular hip-hop artists of recent years: Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa and Pharrell Williams. The structure of the album givesContinue reading “The Sound of 2017.”

January: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at a nightclub in Istanbul killing 39 people and injuring 79 others Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States Millions of people worldwide join the Women’s March in response to Trump’s inauguration The British Red Cross describes the current situationContinue reading “The News of 2017.”

The Florida Project. In the shadows of Disney World, lies the Magic Castle motel, a housing project home to Halley, a young, single mother struggling to find work, and her hyperactive six-year-old daughter, Moonee. Moonee has inherited a bad attitude from her mother and regularly misbehaves, causing mischief for the residents of the motel. Halley,Continue reading “The Cinema of 2017.”

Kick the new year off with a new year; winding the calendar back four years to 2017. The Handmaiden. Silence. The Red Turtle. The Florida Project. Endless Poetry. Damn – Kendrick Lamar. Drunk – Thundercat. Sleep Well Beast – The National. American Dream – LCD Soundsystem. Utopia – Björk.

Document. With last week’s REM album still murmuring in the old ear canals, a real development in their sound can be heard compared with their early work. While Murmur was an indie classic that rejected cliches, Document is a progression towards the more accessible rock that appears on 1988’s Green. Deeper, richer, more pronounced guitarContinue reading “The Sound of 1987.”

Raising Arizona. Hi and Ed are an odd couple. Hi is a serial convenience store robber, in and out of prison after repeated offences; Ed is the policewoman tasked with taking his many mugshots. They fall in love leading Hi to propose upon his next visit to the pen, the punishment of prison at lastContinue reading “The Cinema of 1987.”

January: Seoul National University student Park Jong-cheol dies during torture at the Security Investigation Office in Namyeong-dong President of Ecuador, Léon Febres Cordero, is kidnapped by followers of imprisoned general Frank Vargas, who successfully demand the latter’s release Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer shoots himself with a revolver during a televised press conference after being foundContinue reading “The News of 1987.”

Films: Blind Chance. The Fly. Raising Arizona. Wings of Desire. Au Revoir les Enfants. Albums: Document – REM. Darklands – The Jesus and Mary Chain. Sister – Sonic Youth. You’re Living All Over Me – Dinosaur Jr. Sign o’ the Times – Prince.

January: High ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals to his family Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the UK CITV is launched as a new branding for late afternoon programming on ITV First breakfast time television programme,Continue reading “The News of 1983.”