MOJO-supported trip-hop enigma Aphty Khea presents her new self-titled EP via The Sound Of Everything UK on 8th July. Made up of dark and brooding shades of experimental and electro-pop, the release is the cosmic character’s most eccentric and lush to [...]

A thousand plundered blank pages before me. And I saw the taming of the quill, to the shrill of plot unfolding. I plundered, sure. I sacked a bounty of literary greats, libraries at my feet, [...]

To get one fairly minor cavil out of the way: one or two scenes in Ricki and The Flash (2015) are unartfully staged—not mangled but, given the overarching appeal of the film, annoying—and there are [...]

“Go get them, Angie Tribeca!” shouts the bloke at the end of a long queue of handymen (while admiringly glancing at her derriere – or was that just me?) waiting outside Tribeca’s apartment, which she [...]

Director Barbet Schroeder brought a European sensibility to Reversal of Fortune (1990) that affords the subject the perspective it probably deserves. His Oscar-nominated treatment urges us to take neither the bleak marital arrangements of Claus [...]

Despite the slick crisis management deployed by Wolff, (and we’ll ignore the  knee jerk reaction of Lauda and the claim from the German Press that Hamilton apologies for the incident)…….it’s obvious to me that yet [...]

The youngest ever winner is the tale we’re s’posed to take from the GP in Spain. But really RIC has every to cause to wail, his team lost him the win – I feel his [...]

A new installation featuring twenty 10 foot-high prints of illustrated Vogue covers from 1916-1950 has been launched at Burlington Arcade in partnership with Vogue to celebrate the publication of the magazine’s centenary edition. Featuring some [...]

Leeds quartet Furr have announced the release of their debut single ‘Think Sharp Kid’. With angsty riffs and lo-fi bass, pulsing grooves and piercing vocals, ‘Think Sharp Kid’ is a rock brawler with a fierce [...]

As a lifelong movie enthusiast—and more particularly as someone who writes about film—this is one of those before which I am humbled. Moonstruck (1987) is that very rare film in which each element of production [...]

On holiday, a music critic and sometime composer, Roderick Fitzgerald, and his sister Pamela (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey), discover a lonely house on the rocky coast of Cornwall. Entranced with its romantic charm and [...]

Of course you can just to a theatre. But why not risk the rain and the cold and pneumonia?  Within a globe of willow trees… Llanwrthwl, mid-Wales Despite being born in England to a predominantly [...]

If you are among those who avoided seeing this film because you thought it would be relentlessly bleak you may want to think again—Amour is one of the most important and beautiful films of recent [...]

FOR THE AVID EXPLORER OF HISTORY AND HERITAGE 1. The King in the car park After the unexpected discovery of King Richard III’s long-lost remains underneath a car park in Leicester, the City of Leicester [...]

On 15th May forty-two cars will gather for the third running of the 4 Hours of Imola, round 2 of the 2016 European Le Mans Series. With fourteen LMP2, twenty LMP3 and eight LMGTE entries, [...]

Spa might be the greatest circuit in the world. No wonder the drivers are looking forward to the upcoming FIAWEC 6 hours race there. Nick Heidfeld is looking forward to Spa as it is a [...]

Few races in and changes at Red Bull. A driver out, a driver in – it’s odd. Max should still be studying at school but over Kvyat now he’s got the nod. Mid-season changes (driver-wise) [...]

The Boring Conference–the only must-attend conference of 2016 confirms speakers (though logically the list may change if speakers pull out for any reason which does sometimes happen) The Boring Conference, scheduled to take place at [...]

This year, Chillon Castle in Switzerland is celebrating the bicentenary of English poet, Lord Byron’s visit to the castle. As a libertine, a dandy and an adventurer – Lord Byron (1788-1824) left his mark on [...]

Cider drinkers in London…a large catapult in Glastonbury is being used to launch cider into Zones 1 and 2. It seems unlikely, even though there are photographs of the contraption available. I drove from near [...]

Early warning… The Flaneur is going to produce an ebook of contemporary artists that should be looked at seriously by art lovers and collectors. Inclusion will be completely free. If you are an artist who [...]

The friendship between Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) is one of the most hilariously positive female friendships ever depicted on film. As Shakespeare wrote of the legendary queen of Egypt in [...]

‘If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for [...]

  To celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday, Boxpark have teamed up with four leading street artists, Zabou, The Doodleman, Josh Stika and Skeleton Cardboard for an exclusive exhibition dedicated to the Queen. All four artists [...]

Grace Kelly was making this film on The Riviera when she met Prince Rainier, and she became, one year later in 1956, Her Serene Highness of Monaco. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and co-starring Cary Grant, [...]