House of the Dragon vs The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
House of the Dragon by Sulakshi Ratnayake ★★★★ Game of Thrones had been completely erased from the cultural zeitgeist, due…
Blue Rev by Alvvays ★★★★★
by Sebastian Ching Alvvays’ third album is a wiser and more self-assured refinement of their signature layered and dreamy indie…
William Kentridge at the Royal Academy ★★★★
by Sophie Jordan The medium of charcoal often conjures up images of smudged fingerprints on cold white paper and vague…
The Beaver at The BFI, 2022
With articles by Jack Beeching, William Goltz, Vanessa Huang, Christina Jiang, Liv Kessler, Jill Shaughnessy and Syed Zaid Ali. Illustrated…
My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican – ★★★★★
by JESSICA PRETORIUS Illustrated by Anoushka Guli When you search for images of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) stage adaptation…
‘The Prime Ministers’: a nuanced reading of politics for a divided age ★★★★
Reading Steve Richards’ expert account featuring everything from Labour PM Harold Wilson to Boris Johnson brings forth the shocking revelation:…
The Last Dam Word #4: April ’20
“Her and Ken are just friends but she clearly has feelings for him. I’m invested.” – Zehra Jafree on her…
Video calling apps, ranked
8. Skype and Skype for Business Demonic. I can’t decide which version is worse: the one where you haven’t been…
The Last Dam Word #3: March ’20
“I want to learn all the dances, and I just can’t throw it back, and oh it’s terrible, I hate…
Leo Marley TV ‘Hot Topics’ – Too Hot to Handle ★★★★
Being schooled in the art of YouTube procrastination myself, it was a joy to behold traces of many of YouTube’s…
