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Articles tagged with ‘Review’
Review: The Book of Mormon
Game Review: Tomb Raider
Rebooting a franchise, whether it be a video game series...
Game Review: SimCity
Review: Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901 – The Courtauld Gallery
I have often wondered what phases an artist has...
Music Review: Brother & Bones
Brother & Bones are an energizing, astonishing and...
Music Review: Junip
Review: A Night in Casablanca – Future Cinema
Watching a legendary film on the big screen is a...
Review: Tyler Shields Chromatic at Imitate Modern
This week I had the pleasure of popping in on an exhibition...
Film Review: GF* BF*
Film Review: Stoker
Classics of World Cinema: Pickpocket (1959)
I have to admit that I struggle with...
Music Review: Mama Rosin; Zydeco-Cajun-Punk-Folk band?
I'm not sure that anyone quite knows what to expect when...
Film Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
Film Review: Zero Dark Thirty
The latest film by Kathryn Bigelow focuses on the investigation and...
Film Review: Broken
Classics of World Cinema: Mughal-e-Azam (1960)
If you are from India you have probably heard of Mughal-e-Azam...
Film Review: Lincoln
Spielberg’s latest offering tells the story of America’s 16th president...
Top 5: Sequels Gone Wrong
Website Review: Fandom Comics
Film Review: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
Now we all know the story of Hansel and Gretel...
Music Review: Sam Lee
Review: Film in Space by Guy Sherwin
Film and its definition have often been explored and the...
Music: Opposites – Contrary to some, Biffy are not heading in the wrong direction
Biffy Clyro’s Opposites exemplifies the Scottish rockers’ avant-garde...
Review: The Boy Who Was Woody Allen at the Pleasance Theatre
The Boy Who Was Woody Allen is a new comedy written by David Simmons and...
Film Review: The Sessions
Music Review: Seth Lakeman
The pin-up of folk is back with his 6th studio album...
TV Review: Utopia: Do we care yet?
TV Review: 5 Reasons Why The Following Could Be A Great Series
The first episode of The Following was met with much anticipation and...
TV Review: The Following
LOCO Film Review: Robot & Frank
Jake Schreier’s 2012 Directorial debut, Robot & Frank, was...
Music Review: Levellers
The eagerly awaited tenth studio album from folk rockers...
Film Review: I Give It A Year
There are certain films that one is so excited to see in their...
Film Review: Gangster Squad
The year is 1949 and Mickey Coen will stop at nothing to...
LOCO Film Review: Le Skylab
Julie Delpy has become renowned in this country for her...
Top 5: Time Travel in Film
The concept of time travel can be a tricky thing to...
Review: Life, Oh Life by Festival of the Spoken Nerd at the Bloomsbury Theatre
Described as “a variety night for the insatiably sci-curious”...
Film Review: One Mile Away
One Mile Away depicts the internal attempts to set peace...
Bar Review: Evans and Peel Detective Agency in Earls Court
It is difficult to write about this place without giving the...
Music Review: Blair Dunlop
Having been a fan of Blair’s music for a couple of years now...
Game Review: Thirty Flights of Loving
I had heard lots about Thirty Flights of Loving: about how...
Film Review: Django Unchained
LOCO Film Preview: Klown
Film Review: Broken City
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a good scripted, non-clichéd action...
Technology Review: Sony Xperia Z
Being an iPhone user I rarely have the time or need to look at...
Film Review: Flight
Film Review: When the Lights Went Out
When the Lights Went Out is yet another haunted house horror film...
Game Review: Call of Duty Black Ops 2
When I began Call of Duty Black Ops 2’s campaign I was...
Top 5: Revenge Films
Film Review: Jack Reacher
The iPad & the Transformer Pad: Gaming Capabilities
Film Review: Life of Pi
As soon as the film ended I knew for sure I wanted to see it again...
Film Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
They said that The Lord Of The Rings (LOTR) would be difficult...
Review: Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the ICA
Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the ICA is an annual...
Review: A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance
Tate Modern’s latest blockbuster explores the...
WWE: RAW and SMACKDOWN Review
It was an interesting week in the WWE coming after the...
Technology Review: AppQuiz
Film Review: Trouble with the Curve
After having worked alongside Clint Eastwood since 1995 either...
Film Review: The Master
Huge anticipation awaits the new Paul Thomas Anderson film as...
Review: Isa Genzken at Hauser & Wirth
Isa Genzken’s solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth consists of...
Film Review: The Oranges
Throughout my childhood my idea of a Christmas movie was...
Review: Floris Neusüss: Ancient and Modern
Following the success of ‘Shadow Catchers: Camera...
TV Review: Grey’s Anatomy
In a world where a number of television series don't survive past the...
Top 5: Films to Look Forward to this Christmas
Every year according to an unspoken tradition we get the best...
TV Review: New Girl
Review: Richard Hamilton: The Late Works at The National Gallery
Standing on the steps of the entrance to London’s famous...
Restaurant Review: Tuk Cho
Game Review: Is Halo 4 Still Halo?
After taking a day out of my schedule to blast through...
Film Review: Rise of the Guardians
Bringing together various characters to fight a...
Film Review: Rust and Bone
Review: Pete Townshend – Who I am
There are those that are simply remembered and...
Film Review: Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania is the first feature of director Genndy Tartakovsky...
Review: Chanel – Little Black Jacket Exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery
Mixing a classy, sophisticated cocktail-party atmosphere with bold...
Game Review: Everyday Is The Same Dream
Everyday Is The Same Dream is an incredibly stylish, thought provoking art...
Top 5: Films From The 70s
Film Review: Tiny Furniture
TV Review: Boardwalk Empire
The success of a TV show is extremely unpredictable and for a...
Review: Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes
It’s rare for Mark Rothko to feature in a group exhibition...
Film Review: Untouchable
It is always quite interesting to see how a foreign film does in...
Restaurant Review: Carom at Meza
Wardour Street’s Carom at Meza, named after an...
Film Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Although it is a bit of a mouthful Sean Durkin’s debut...
Film Review: To Rome With Love
One thing I realized watching Woody Allen’s latest European...
Film Review: Lawless
Film Review: Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Making a documentary film, or any film, is a hard...
Game Review: DayZ – When Clunky Becomes Creepy
How can something so clunky be so scary?
Film Review: Taken 2
When I first watched Taken I was shocked at how good it really was...
Film Review: Anna Karenina
After it was first published in a series of installments...
Restaurant Review: The Northcote
Clapham Junction’s Northcote Road, a bustling hub of...
Film Review: Total Recall
Satisfying my curiosity is the only reason why I went to see this...
Film Review: Magic Mike
Throughout his career director Steven Soderbergh has delivered films, which not only...
Film Review: The Bourne Legacy
Restaurant Review: Wahaca South Bank
The Wahaca Southbank Experiment is a pop-up...
Technology: Free Time
Top 5: Book to Film Adaptations
Some of the best films have been adapted from books and...
Film Review: Brave
Film Review: The Flowers of War
Chinese director, Yimou Zhang, is already known...
Review: George Watsky at The Old Vic Tunnels
For those interested in spoken word and users...
Art Review: Wastelands to Wonderlands
After an hour’s wait outside the British Library...
Film Review: Take Shelter
Film Review: Bel Ami
Film Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Each year less and less live action films...
Club Review: The Piccadilly Institute
The Piccadilly Institute isn’t your average West End club...
Game Review: Songify
Film Review: The Tree of Life
Film Review: We Bought a Zoo
Film Review: Headhunters
Morten Tyldum’s latest film Headhunters once again proves...
Between the Covers: 500 Shakespearean Sonnets
Ryan J-W Smith’s 500 Shakespearean Sonnets (the diary of a poetic quest...
Retro Game Review: Ico
Restaurant Review: Stein’s
Film Review: Café de Flore
Film Review: 21 Jump Street
Website Review: shortoftheweek.com
There are tons of short film sites out there...
TV Review: American Horror Story
American Horror Story is nothing to be afraid of...
Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
As beginnings go, hearing that the end of the world is...
Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
PS3 Game Review: Rainbow Moon
Rainbow Moon is a complete throwback to classic RPGs...
Festival Review: Latitude
For festival lovers, there is always a difficulty when summer comes...
TV Review: Weeds
Restaurant Review: The Hawksmoor
Game Review: Supreme Commander 2
Having played on various platforms, I have built...
Top 5: Films set in LA
There is more to Los Angeles than the glitz and glamour...
Get yours while you can!
Film Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Vampire films are coming out of the wood work...
Retro Game Review: Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
Last month’s E3 sparked a debate about video games dumbing down since their...
TV Review: Seinfeld
Top 5: Infectious Films
There’s nothing like a good outbreak or contagious disease in a film...
TV Review: Shows That Got Cancelled
TV, unlike most other entertainment industries, tends to suffer from a high-risk lifeline for its projects...
Restaurant Review: The Mango Tree
The Mango Tree is a secluded Thai Oasis in the heart of Belgravia...
TV Review: South Park Season 15
South Park is a show that is beyond the Marmite feeling of television...
Retro Game Review: Sid Meier’s Civilization V
According to Sid Meier's Civilization V by 2048 the world will be split into 3 superpowers...
Film Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
This year we have had the chance to see two adaptations of the classic fairytale...
TV Review: True Blood
For the past three months I have had my facebook news feed littered with HBO’s...
On the Stage: Rosenblatt Recitals: Juan Diego Flórez
A historic occasion: the debut of near-superstar operatic tenor Juan Diego Flórez at the Royal Albert Hall, following in the...
Game Review: Monsters Ate My Condo
If you’ve ever seen Robot Chicken then you’ll understand the madness of a game made by its...
Restaurant Review: MEATLiquor
No meat, no liquor is the slogan of this edgy, new...
TV Review: Hit and Miss
Very few British dramas have equalled the complete and professional cinematic spectrum of American TV...
Review: Rock of Ages
Retro Game Review: Fahrenheit
On Monday at E3, alongside the big franchise announcements such as God of War, Crysis and...
Film Review: The Lucky One
Adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel, the film tells the story of ...
Restaurant Review: Café Pacifico
In desperate need of Tex-Mex I hit the streets of London...
Retro Review: Conan the Barbarian
When you think of Arnie you think of guns, big muscles and witty puns...
Retro Review: Copycat
During the nineties there was a boom in thrillers based around serial killers...
Restaurant Review: Quaglino’s
European brasserie, Quaglino’s, has graced St James’s since 1929.
TV Review: Dexter Series 6 – #1
A lot of the time people tell me how much they hate their job...
Retro Review: US Marshals
Bar Review: Queen of Hoxton
Film Review: Dark Shadows
TV Review: Dexter
Film Review: Avengers Assemble
It’s been a long time coming and after one of the...
Restaurant Review: Skylon
The Skylon bar perches on the first floor of London’s royal festival hall, with floor to ceiling windows giving an amazing view
Restaurant Review: Potli
Potli, literally translated as “food bundle”, is a humble name for such an exceptional restaurant.
Restaurant Review: The Rock and Rose
The Rock and Rose has taken Richmond’s Kew Road by storm...
Titanic 3D – more of a confession than a review
Right now I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life to write this particular review.
Film Review: The Hunger Games
Film adaptations of books usually do not perform well.
Game Review: XCOM: Enemy Unknown
What. Just. Happened. Everything was going great.
Restaurant Review: Palmers
A good month ago now, Helena and I decided to go to Palmers on the Roman...
Music Review: The Rubberbandits
The Rubberbandits are a comedy hip-hop duo from Ireland who...
Film Review: Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance
Nicolas Cage, one of Hollywood’s busiest actors is...
MouthLondon Spring 2012
Music Review: Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas
Old Ideas is Leonard Cohen’s first album in eight years, and it is exactly that...
Review: The Kid with a Bike
Belgian directors and brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, have been making films together since the 1970s.
Review: Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
If Alan Wake, developer of Remedy’s 2010 long gestating third...
Bar Review: The O Bar
Being told that the venue for a night out had changed from a bar...
Music Review: Fabriclive 61
Fabriclive 61, the most recent release under the ‘Fabriclive’...
Game Review: Star Trek Online – Future thinking and free?
Online gaming has really blossomed in the last decade...
Review: Project X
Project X is an enjoyable film if you've never seen American Pie or...
On the Stage: Last Chance to see The Bee
“Once there was a man, who lived life as it is commonly felt one should. But the badder he got, the more
Review: J. Edgar
I am generally cautious about Clint Eastwood films. I was not a fan of Gran Torino, but after...
Bar Review: Juno
We stumbled across Juno whilst exploring Shoreditch high street for new places to eat, drink and indulge in weekend revelry.
Restaurant Review: Terroirs
Let me start by saying that Terroirs is not terribly cheap; that said, I don’t think it’s fair to rule it out...
Special Review: The Hummingbird Bakery
Last week I was sent to the Soho branch of the Hummingbird Bakery to view their...
Club Review: funkybuddha
When planning a luxury girl’s night out we decided to head to the notorious funkybuddha. Having been refurbished in 2011, we were
DVD Review: Tatsumi
Tatsumi is an animated film that takes us into the Godfather of Gekiga (a break-away genre of...
Gadget Review: Olympus Linear PCM Recorder LS-3
I was surprised how much fun I had with Olympus LS-3.
Film Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
When watching a film in the cinema on several occasions I have left the screening rambling about how...
Restaurant: Diwana Bhel Poori House
My friend and fellow diner last week at Diwana Bhel Poori House has a big mortgage to pay. A mortgage so big
Film Review: Puss in Boots
If you've seen Shrek then you fell in love with the sidekick character of Donkey. When Shrek 2 came out...
Game Review: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
If you loved Fallout 3 and Oblivion, then you’ll love Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Restaurant Review: Little Georgia
I have never felt so utterly let down by my stomach. A stomach usually of such...
The Weekly Round-up
In the same week that I finally got round to seeing Quentin Tarantino’s epic crime...
Restaurant Review: Ariana II
“Did you punch the wall?” asked the waitress, pointing to...
Night Out: The Blitz Party
I love the idea of the 40s; men were men, women were ladies, the pub was Facebook...
The Weekly Round-Up
This week has been all about great music events in and around London...
Review: NOW Streetfood
We had the opportunity to go and sample some of NOW delicious wares and...
Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love
Crazy, Stupid, Love comes out tomorrow, but is this rom-com worthy of your time? Find out here...
Review: Red State
Review: Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril at the Courtauld
In two rooms on the top floor of the Courtauld Gallery lies a small, but perfectly formed...
Review: Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century at the RA
The stunning selection of images featured in the Royal Academy’s thought-provoking exhibition...
Last Chance to See: London Street Photography
Considering the relatively large amount of effort that the Museum of London has put into...
Cordoba: Overrated?
Maybe it was because of the almost 42°C, or because by the time I...
Review: The Serpentine Pavillion
This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is a black box perched on the edge of leafy...
Review: Twombly and Poussin at Dulwich Picture Gallery
The death of impulsive dauber, fervent scribbler and self-styled “romantic symbolist” Cy Twombly...
Restaurant Review: Song Que
Song Que undoubtedly is the Vietnamese princess of Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, the little Vietnam of...
Iron Maiden: Old Rockers with New Tricks
Iron Maiden are at a stage in their lives where they no longer churn out ten month long tours every year...
The satirical anti-anti-movement: The Vorticists
“Vorticism”: a word coined by Ezra Pound in 1913, is the name of a brief but dynamic pre-war British...
Review: Michelangelo Pistoletto at Serpentine Gallery
The Serpentine Gallery describes Michelangelo Pistoletto as a “leading figure” in Arte Povera and conceptual art...
Luis Tosar in Cell 211 and Even the Rain
The large majority of reviews will focus on a specific film, but I want to take a slightly different approach...
Review: Arrietty
Arrietty is the latest film from Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli...
Review: Much Ado About Nothing at Wyndhams Theatre
Shakespeare’s modern audiences tend to split along the same lines as the crowd that...
Review: Richard Long at Haunch of Venison
The development of land art in the 1960s, as a form of...
Review: Cowboys and Aliens
Cowboys and Aliens takes two stalwart action genres and in combining them had the potential to become a fun filled, thrilling epic...
Going Burritos
It seems burrito shops are popping up all over London. Every few...
Review: Taryn Simon at Tate Modern
Taryn Simon’s exhibition A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters is a fascinating collection of bloodlines...
Review: Pygmalion at Garrick Theatre
My first thought about this play was that it was going to be the...
Review: Government Art Collection: At Work
The idea that art can have a government “job” exerting subtle diplomatic influence is ostensibly
Review: Doctor Faustus at the Globe
Wherever performed, Doctor Faustus will always generate excitement and curiosity. Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy lends...
Is it really that Wicked?
Among all the hit musicals of London, Wicked is definitely the...
Edinburgh Preview: A Clockwork Orange
Playing at the Camden People’s Theatre, before their run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Action to the Word...
Review: The Guard
Sgt Gerry Boyle (Brendon Gleeson) isn’t half as suave or badass a rogue cop as you would find in a Hollywood cop
Review: Captain America: The First Avenger
Ever since Iron Man hit our screens in 2008, Marvel has been delivering new...
Review: Horrible Bosses
I went along to the screening of Horrible Bosses without any prior...
Review: In a Better World
Graphic Novel Review: The Dylan Dog Case Files
Oh, why bother? It’s all going to the dogs. Graduate employment, the economy, journalism, Hogwarts… they’re all collapsing around our ears.
Review: Incendies
Sea of Bees at the Dalston Roof Park
Whilst entering the scene, discarded and giggling, Sea of Bees (alias Julie Ann Baenziger) does not seem...
The Canterbury Tales
Many of us will know the New Zealand based clothing label Canterbury as the sporting brand that has supplied some of...
Travel: Beirut Express
Edgeware, also known as Little Cairo or Little Beirut, is famous for its...
A Look Back: Benny & Joon (1993)
Benny & Joon is quite possibly the quirkiest rom-com I have ever had the enjoyment of watching...
Review: Ping Pong Restaurant
The weather is warming up and we’re shedding our outer layer of clothes for something lighter, brighter, and...
Band Review: The Script
“Going back to the corner where I first saw you, gonna camp in my sleeping bag, I’m not...
Review: Trust
Tackling one of the most heart wrenching parental issues, Trust is a truly intriguing and thought provoking film. The story...
Preview: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The twinkling theme tune can be heard again…Wizards, Muggles…come out. On July 15th Harry Potter will...
Review: Brixton Village Market
Where Coldharbour Lane meets Atlantic Road, you’ll find the sea blue arches of...
Review: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The preview screening of Transformers : Dark of the Moon did not fill me with much excitement or anticipation as I...
Review: Women War Artists
On entering the Women War Artists’ exhibition one is faced by a wall of statistics highlighting...
Review: Kerry Tribe: Dead Star Light
A thin, black strip of audiotape, secured flush against the wall, whips round the gallery space and back...
Summer Reading List Part 3
Three of our reviewers reveal their top choices for novels to read over the summer coming! Do you...
Summer Reading List Part 2
Three of our reviewers reveal their top choices for novels to read over the summer coming! Do you agree...
Josh King’s Alternative Summer Soundtrack Part 2
From folk-rock to hardcore punk, Josh King presents the second half of his round up of...
Graphic Novel Review: Snow Trap
When two record store owners discover that a whole stack of their New Wave vinyls has been stolen by...
Josh King’s Alternative Summer Soundtrack Part 1
When summer hits us and we’re finally free from work and school, the first thoughts that hit a...
Summer Reading List Part 1
Three of our reviewers reveal their top choices for novels to read over the summer coming! Do you...
Review: The Beaver
An adult man wears a beaver puppet on his hand, and talks through it during the whole film. That may sound like
Last Chance To See: Mark Leckey at the Serpentine
Pin It Mark Leckey, winner of the Turner Prize 2008, works mainly in collage, sculpture, video and sound. His most recent exhibition
The Merchants of Bollywood
After an extraordinarily successful international tour seen by over two million people; the critically acclaimed...
Review: Ronnie Scott’s
Since moving to London, my love life has been somewhat of a disaster. But sat in front of a...
Review: The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture at the Saatchi
A contemporary art exhibition The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture came to the Saatchi Gallery not longer than few...
Shoreditch Incognito
Ah Shoreditch, it’s so cool. And it knows it too. So here is an evening-full of venues that you have to look
Review: Lord of the Flies at the Open Air Theatre
The Open Air Theatre nestled into a corner of Regent’s Park offers a unique portrayal of any dramatic work. But, in this...
Stocks are Running Low!
Pin It Copies of our latest issue for summer are nearly depleted, so purchase your copy now! Filled to the brim with
Book Review: My Dear I Wanted To Tell You
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, by Louisa Young, is an example of how not only the history of our country,
A Passion Play: Chokher Bali (Sand in the Eye)
This masterful work of art was based on the novel of Rabindranath Tagore, who was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and
Review: Women Make Sculpture at Pangolin
As unfashionable as it may be to point out gender inequality in this “post-feminist” age, there is still evidence of a disparity...
Review: Ahmed Ahmed’s Just Like Us
Just Like Us is a documentary by Ahmed Ahmed, an Egyptian American stand-up comedian from...
Art/Experimental Shorts at LIDF
Strips forms together by taking a vintage erotic film and manipulating the displaced filmstrips to entice the voyeur’s present desire in...
Travel: Istanbul
With one foot firmly grounded in Europe and the other in Asia, Istanbul personifies “East Meets West”...
Review: Hummingbird Bakery
I have been living in London for close to 2 years, but I was born and raised in Los...
Review: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Academy Award winner Brigitte Berman combines rare footage and an entertaining snapshot at the life of the founder of the Playboy Empire.
Graphic Novel Review: domestiCATed, Paths Once Crossed
I am a dog person. Always have and always will be. After reading this graphic novel my...
Review: No One Knows About Persian Cats
In a time when various filmmakers and musicians advocate stricter laws in response of the downloading of their...
Restaurant Review: River Café
Emerging from Hammersmith underground station at the tail end of a rainy evening rush hour is like...
Poetry Review: Six Children by Mark Ford
The title of Mark Ford's third collection is taken from Walt Whitman’s admission late in life, that “Though unmarried I have...
Review: X-Men: First Class
It's Summer time and Hollywood’s biggest and brightest films are flocking to the cinemas and...
Nobrow’s DIY Publishing event for Diesel Island
The Diesel Island Cultural Olympiad 2011 continues this week with a talk from Sam Arthur and Alex Spiro from...
An Interview with Rap’s Rising Star, Context MC
Context MC arrived on the music scene back in 2008 with his “Dialectics EP”. Three years later and...
Amy Grimehouse: Whatever Happened to Hollywood Glam?
As the spectators and myself make our way into the venue, we are received by the...
Review: Insidious
There hasn't been much in the way of original content in the horror genre. After years of visceral torture...
Restaurant Review: Joe & the Juice
Lately I have been doing a lot of shopping. Between buying a new bike and everything that...
Graphic Novel Review: A day in the life of Alfred
After reading Jean Baptiste, I was interested to see what other work Øivind Hovland had..
Review: Jack Falls
Jack Falls was recently screened at the London Independent Film Festival, with director Paul Tanter providing the audience with an...
Not to be Missed: The Mahler Symphony Cycle at Southbank
An astonishing jumble of styles – and an ear-splitting, nerve-shattering din. I had never...
Book Review: Solar
Solar by Ian McEwan focuses on issues of global warming while trying to keep pace with the everyday...
MouthLondon Summer 2011 has finally arrived!
Our writers, photographers, designers and other contributors have all helped us complete our latest issue for...
Band Review: This Club
The Dublin based band returned to London for the first time in four years, to play the...
Weekly round-up | 19 May – 25 May
This week we have seen some interesting and inspiring articles! We’ve also...
Review: Stag and Dagger
As five hour events go, this one packed a potent punch. 19 May was the fourth annual...
Review: La Bohème at the King’s Head Theatre
A door at the back of a quirky Islington tavern opens and the audience diffuse into...
Restaurant Review: Bistro du Vin
Whether you work, live or play in the City it can...
Review: ArtPad App
Currently enjoying first place ranking on iTunes UK productivity chart, ArtPad is much more...
Review: The Pool
As we drove through the industrial sector of East London it dawned on me that...
Review: Submarine
The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade’s debut British film Submarine was...
Weekly round-up | 12 May – 18 May
So with design work almost complete on our newest, brand spanking issue we...
Book Review: When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
Fathers and friends, brothers and sisters, neighbours...
Ivy Rising to the Top
If I surveyed a hundred people, asking them a very simple question; “Have you ever heard of...
Review: Hamlet at the Globe
Anyone who expects to see a heartbreaking production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Globe theatre this...
Paddy Considine – The Unsung Hero of British Cinema
British Cinema has often been about exploring the representation of social...
Restaurant Review: The Breakfast Club
It is said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I think it’s the best meal and struggle to
Tomokiyo – The Slaughtered Lamb 07/04/11
London based three piece Tomokiyo seem talented enough in their...
Restaurant Review: The Abingdon – Sticky Toffee worth traveling to West London
West London isn’t traditionally thought of as a...
Chipmunk Launch Party Review
We asked one of our competition winners, Matthew Clayden, to let us...
Graphic Novel Review: Trial and Error, The Aviated Efforts Of Jean Babtiste de Bomberaque
Everyone I know has a topic of conversation that they feel is...
Review: Macbeth at the House of Detention
Tired of watching traditional Shakespeare? Don’t fancy standing-up...
Graphic Novel Review: Dreams and Everyday Life
Continuing on from Thomas Wogan Is Dead, this week I have delved...
Review: An American Experiment at the National Gallery
An American Experiment provides a brief but worthy view of Art...
Weekly round-up | 26 Apr-01 May
Well it's been one of those weeks! 25 million of...
Weekly round-up | 17 Apr-25 Apr
It’s been a busy week for the MouthLondon team! While...
Review: Parks and Recreation
Writing about television can be very difficult sometimes, almost as hard as watching it. It is a completely...
Review: DazedLive
In putting on its début festival and celebrating its 19th birthday, Dazed and Confused produced a line-up...
CHIPMUNK Competition Now CLOSED
Pin It Well it’s officially over. We have looked through the list of submissions and are pleased to announce that the 5
Jameson Whiskey Cult Film Club
Are you a fan of great film and free drinks? If so then Jameson Cult Film Club is definitely for you...
Review: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene at the Barbican Centre
The Barbican can always be relied on to bring diverse and stimulating arts into the heart of London. Taking over...
Review: Faster
When an action film is called Faster you go in expecting a few things. One thought is a tag line that manages...
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros at The Old Vic Tunnels
Whispers echoed around the tunnels, but who am I to arbitrate whether Edward Sharpe and Co's five...
Review: The Kills | Heaven
Often when a band is uncommunicative in set it can be a bit of a turn off. As though mere-mortals in the...
Review: Red Riding Hood
This was not how I expected my first premiere to go: from the mis-introduction of the evening’s hosts at Kiss FM...
Review: Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
Star Island takes two opposing genres with this novel and fastens them on top of a Pop Culture theme...
Review: Battle: Los Angeles
The story follows a group of soldiers on a mission to rescue trapped civilians in the city of Los Angeles...
Review: A Flash of Light at the V&A
A Flash of Light: The Dance Photography of Chris Nash is now on display at the V&A Museum...
Review: Far East Movement’s “Free Wired”
You probably remember the start of 2011 chiming the words “like a blizzard” in an obscenely exaggerated...
Review: Several Interruptions at the Slade
Several Interruptions is an exhibition celebrating fifteen years of the Slade Centre for...
Screentest Festival: The National Student Festival
Last weekend a new, exciting and promising event burst onto the capital's ever flowing cultural spectrum...
Review: The Brother’s Size a RADA Production
A long, languorous note is drawn out slowly out on the violin, evoking...
Review: Ida Kar at the National Portrait Gallery
A key figure in establishing photography as a fine art, Ida Kar’s photographs are...
Review: Jaga Jazzist | The Scala London
Multi-member Norwegian Nu Jazz stalwarts, Jaga Jazzist have been bringing their distinct brand...
Review: Sucker Punch
An abysmal display is the only way to describe Zack Snyder's first "original film"...
Review: Limitless
Limitless. With a name like that its potential is immense. Bradley Cooper leads as struggling...
Review: British Art Show 7 at the Hayward
The Hayward’s touring, group exhibition British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet is...
Review: The Adjustment Bureau
Can you defy fate? If given the option of having a successful career or being with the person you love most...
Review: Macbeth by UCLU Drama Society
The crew behind the production of this play, led by director Dan Pick, deserves...
Review: Rango
Rango is a great example of how animated movies have developed over the last decade: the graphics are simply amazing...
Review: Greenland at the National Theatre
For the rare few who are blissfully unaware of humanities' impending doom, as a result of climate change, the super...
Review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
I had no pre-conceptions about this film as it had been a while since I'd seen a Woody Allen film. Overall...
Review: A Night with the All Tropical Gang
I enjoy warm days in London. Sunshine brings the happy people out and...
Review: Remastered at One Marylebone
In an original collaboration of the past with the present, the Remastered project, at One Marylebone, exhibits...
Review: The Rite
MouthLondon Spring 2011 is here!
The Spring 2011 Issue is here! Come take a look...
EXCLUSIVE Review: The France Show 2011
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... The much-anticipated France Show 2011 was a huge success, attracting thousands...
French Fashion’s “Je ne sais quoi”
French ethos towards dressing is one of quality over quantity, as a French woman will think nothing of buying a classic designer...
Restaurant Review: Brawn
Brawn, which has just opened on Columbia Road in the fashionable East End, is the sister restaurant of the much loved...
Restaurant Review: Tapas Brindisa
Tapas Brindisa is a small tapas restaurant/wine bar serving a renowned selection of Spanish cured meats and cheese, exclusively Spanish...
Films to look out for in 2011
Last year the silver screen was once again dominated by sequels and re-makes with seven of them...
EXCLUSIVE Naming a Mountain: The Problems of “Sound Art”
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... Artist and musician Jem Finer’s Longplayer is, famously, the longest...
Editor’s Art Choice: Adam & Eve
I never thought much of Barnett Newman. Despite abstract expressionism being one of my favourite artistic movements, his paintings never...
Review: Gabriel Orozco at the Tate Modern
A human skull covered in chequered squares, sunken sockets staring eerily out at the viewer, ragged teeth in full view. This is...
Review: Paul
I was lucky enough to go along to a special screening of this film in which I was surrounded by an audience...
Profile: New Artists
There exists beneath the sponsored hierarchy of famous young artists, a world where creativity and talent go almost unnoticed in their...
Review: Borough Market
Nestled beneath the railway in South East London is the heart of British food culture: Borough Market. Around 70 stalls sprawl among...
EXCLUSIVE Love & Laughter
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... The romantic comedy is notoriously difficult to get right. The predictability of...
Review: Killing Bono
Dynamic, funny and real, the film tells a story of the McCorrmy brothers’ vain efforts to make their way through the 80s...
Review: Modern British Sculpture at RA
It wasn’t until I came face-to-face with the massive pendular penis of Jacob Epstein’s Adam that I realised the intent of...
Review: Off the Page
In the stunning setting of Regent’s college, surrounded by beautiful parkland and magnificent buildings, up-and-coming screen writers are offered the opportunity to...
Review: Romantics at Tate Britain
The Romantic exhibition in the Clore gallery at Tate Britain shows JMW Turner alongside works from his peers. It is...
Review: The Piano Cemetery
José Luis Peixoto is Portugal’s most celebrated young novelist. In The Piano Cemetery, his second release in English, he fictionalises...
Review: Newspeak: British Art Now Part II
The second part of Saatchi’s survey of current British Art cannot escape the legacy of Sensation; a similar survey show he held...
Review: Aesthetica Creative Works Annual
The Aesthetica Creative Works Annual contains the best of more than four thousand entries to the Creative Works Competition, spanning...
Review: Bridget Riley Paintings at the NG
One enters the Sunley Room to find a space in which time stands still and calm reigns. It would be...
What’s happened to Mike Skinner?
Ten years, 5 albums and 1 child later; it seems Mike Skinner has mellowed. Though we always knew him as the ‘mockney’...
EXCLUSIVE “Proud” to be Different
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... Converted from a two hundred year old, Grade 2 listed horse hospital...
Review: The Fighter
I had three rather large concerns walking into the preview screening of director David O. Russell’s The Fighter. Firstly...
Review: Sanctum
Not even support from James Cameron as executive producer could save 3D underwater adventure Sanctum from getting that sinking feeling...
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Xin Nian Kuai Le!
Chinese New Year is one of the biggest occasions for all Chinese people around the world. It is a time for...
Chromaroma
Chromaroma is an online platform that takes the real-life experience of travelling around London to a new level...
All the Underground’s a Stage
The day I first heard Jon Curtis sing, for a minute or two I forgot I was in the London Underground...
MouthLondon Launch Party 1st March 2011
We had a great night at the Agenda Bar, City of London, raising money for...
Review: Yogi Bear
Simply put, Yogi has failed in attempting that oh-so-hard trick to pull off – the mixing of CGI and reality...
Review: True Grit
A remake of True Grit was inevitably going to surface sooner or later, but fortunately it is the Coen brothers...
Review: Rabbit Hole
A married couple struggles to revert to a peaceful life, after their four-year-old son dies in a car accident...
Jessie J: The Future of Pop
f you’ve managed to catch a glimpse of any self-respecting Hotly Tipped List for 2011 then you’ve probably heard about Jessie J...
Review: The Stanley Blacks
The Stanley Blacks, together for almost two years now, are clearly a...
Review: Morning Glory
To write an excessively critical review of this film would be like bullying the bubbly, over-eager child who...
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EXCLUSIVE Because it was Chopin…
If Paris can boast its rivière gauche with the intellectual Latin Quartier, London can...
Review: GAUGUIN – 101
I was amazed to find that Gauguin, who is construed in contemporary literature as a creative genius, began his career…
Review: Frieze Art Fair
My mother always told me to look at the sponsor of an art exhibition and ask myself...
Review: Anish Kapoor Exhibits at Kensington Gardens
Considered one of the most influential artists of his generation, Anish Kapoor has...
Football Talents of the Future
As the long countdown to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil begins, I’ll be taking a look at...
Healthy Eating on a Student Budget
It is a Monday morning and, after a weekend of pints at the pub, more than your head is...
Review: Made In Dagenham
The opening of the film reveals the numbers: 55,000 men and 187 women. The vast difference between men and…
Review: The Social Network
Broken friendships, a ruthless rivalry, the inception of the greatest...
Too Much Trailer
Trailers are one of the most important advertising techniques used in the promotion of...
Review: Let Me In
Shortly after the success of the critically lauded Let the Right One In, the adaptation to...
EXCLUSIVE Review: Is Tropical | Maria and the Mirrors
Before heading out on tour with Mystery Jets for the next few weeks, Is Tropical played a final…
The Prince Charles Cinema
There is a time and a place for enjoying Leicester Square, but when you have had enough of...