Infinite Jest: An Interview with Richard Herring
For comedy aficionados, Richard Herring needs no introduction. So we’re not going to give him one. Declan Tan asks the questions What is it you strive for in your shows? Mainly to make people laugh,...
View ArticleSteve Aylett: Lint The Movie
Reviewed by Declan Tan Until recently, the promise of Steve Aylett’s £750 foray into feature-length film productions had seemingly been wandering desultorily around the Internet for quite some time,...
View ArticleTequila Tales: An Anthology of Short Fiction
Reviewed by Declan Tan The Tequila Tales anthology (edited by Millie Johanna Heur and Roy Anthony Shabla) is an eclectic mixture of genre, style and content that unites a well-published group of...
View ArticleWe Need To Talk About Kevin
Reviewed by Declan Tan Lynne Ramsay’s deranged adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s equally deranged novel (which Shriver quite garishly lauds on the film’s poster) is a decent stretch of film that...
View ArticleDan Fante: Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
Reviewed by Declan Tan Opening with the familiar visions of snow from the likes of Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Dago Red (‘Bricklayer in the Snow’), Dan Fante kicks off, like Svevo and Arturo of his...
View ArticleTake Shelter
Reviewed by Declan Tan From Shotgun Stories writer/director comes a second feature on small town America, another portrait of troubled family which despite its flaws, reaffirms Jeff Nichols’ potential...
View ArticleJonathan Walker and Dan Hallett: Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel
Reviewed by Declan Tan Not every book looks and feels like an artefact when you pick it up. Oftentimes it is just words printed across cheap paper, the literal form of it separated from its content,...
View ArticleJames Sallis: Drive
"...this is genre-fiction elevated somewhat by a writer who is clearly familiar with the genre that he is subverting..."
View ArticleShame (Dir: Steve McQueen)
Reviewed by Declan Tan Steve McQueen’s second feature is a visually arresting, thematically dense piece of cinema, that may, and probably will, prove to be an important film in years to come. That is,...
View ArticleJohn Warner: The Funny Man
"...a mulchy broth of satire, cultural commentary and La-Z-Boy philosophy that simmers away on lukewarm, only ever threatening to come to the boil..."
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