Demob Happy

The best summation of Murakami’s talents? 8/10 ‘Dance Dance Dance‘ is probably the ideal place for any Murakami novice to start as it is a compelling summation of the author’s singular moods and preoccupations. It combines some of the themes of grief, loss and memory of novels like ‘Norweigan Wood‘, but less oppressively so, and [...]

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The best album of the last ten years? 10/10 I know for certain that not all the music I have bought and am listening to recently will stand the test of time. It is a pessimistic assertion but true to say that a great deal of modern music is ephemeral and quickly exhausted. However, it [...]

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Four-story tower of Babel 7/10 Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest film follows in the footsteps of his previous works Amores Perros and, significantly, 21 Grams. It mirrors the latter film’s fundamental contrivance by interweaving several seemingly disparate stories operating on different timescales and, in this film, time zones. This is becoming almost a clichéd mini-genre in [...]

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