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Zombiezzzzzzzz: Putting the genre to rest

07/11/2013

Hordes of undead roaming the streets are one thing, but stagnant and creatively bankrupt popular culture that never goes away is another. It’s time the genre got shot in the head....

A Magnificent Haunting [Film]

25/10/2013

Not quite detailed enough to create a true immersion in the blending of fantasy and reality it attempts, but as a piece to lightly charm, A Magnificent Haunting is recommended....

London Film Festival : The Lunchbox

20/10/2013

Review of the London Film Festival choice The Lunchbox...

London Film Festival : Short Term 12

19/10/2013

Short Term 12 is an impressive, emotive film that indicates some good material to come from Cretton....

London Film Festival : Computer Chess

15/10/2013

A film that will likely appeal to only the film aficionado. But for that aficionado it is a quietly hilarious little gem....

London Film Festival : Teenage

08/10/2013

The teenager is a creature whose needs and wants are the same, no matter the era...

A picture from GV Art Generation exhibition

Generation : GV Art

01/10/2013

'Motherhood in a sense is a performance, that the artists too are re-rehearsing'. Trebuchet reports on Generation at London's GV Art gallery....

Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Aspirational Evil

27/09/2013

Vince Gilligan has said in interviews that Breaking Bad started as an idea of creating show in which a sympathetic protagonist became a terrifying antagonist. Revisiting the show, this becomes clear....

PAFT Relief with Rachael Reichert

19/09/2013

CyBelle Horizon: a comic book, a video and a catwalk show all surrounded by vintage issues of American comic books. It could, and perhaps should, have been a total disaster...

Word. Sound. Power. (Tate Britain)

29/07/2013

We are in collaboration with the artists. Where work is subtitled we begin to demand the presence of a voice and find ourselves clutching at headsets for dear life. We begin to translate our familiar...

Come as You Are (Hasta la Vista) [FILM]

07/06/2013

Its cocktail of playfulness and poignancy may at times seem a little sweet, but it goes down very smoothly....

About Trebuchet

23/04/2013

Trebuchet’s writers are university lecturers, record label owners, gallery curators, professional journalists, avid readers and you....

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Final Part]

10/04/2013

'Art is not made by committee' SWP concludes his series on the art of the soundtrack...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 3]

27/03/2013

If you want sublime original music you don’t ask a god-given talent to appropriate and subtly re-arrange a track by Enya....

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 2]

21/03/2013

The great composers like Jarre responded heroically to the high expectations of both director and studio....

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

14/03/2013

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

Earnest Endeavours | Mono/Poly

06/03/2013

Secret Video Invite : MONO/POLY + FREE THE ROBOTS EUROPE TOUR MARCH 2013. Thurs 14-Mar-13 @ Village Underground...

Fire in the Blood [Film]

20/02/2013

A healthcare industry that is allowed to continue monopolising the world will see many more needless deaths, all in the name of indifference and bottom dollar...

The Sensual Economist

11/02/2013

For no outwardly discernible reason, the periodical had decided to give the soft-porn star a full page obituary (with picture)....

Gael Garcia Bernal in No [Film]

08/02/2013

No is a deeply involving experience, and in no small part due to Bernal's performance....

We Are All Dead Now [Stephen Jones]

04/02/2013

Zombie Apocalypse threatens imminently. SWP composes the soundtrack....

Holy Motors [Film]

27/01/2013

The truth, and the beauty of the film is that it is wide open to interpretation. ...

Life of Pi: Review

19/12/2012

Ultimately, Life of Pi as film is a visual complement to Yann Martel's story as opposed to a fresh telling of its own. But what a visual complement it is....

The Punk Syndrome/Kovasikajuttu [Film]

11/12/2012

The reason this whole thing works is that it becomes, pretty quickly, a story about actual people, and not just ciphers for what is wrong with them, or the way that society treats them....

Alexandra Ackerman: Interview

28/11/2012

Alexandra Ackerman: an LA transplant with a cache of romance novel covers, film, television and stage performances under her belt. When it comes to Hollywood substance is usually traded for beauty,...

Beware of Mr Baker

17/10/2012

SEE Ginger whipping up an afro storm with Fela Ransom Kuti in Lagos. SEE highlights from both of Cream’s memorable Albert Hall performances. SEE Ginger, stoned out of his mind, falling off his...

Chris Isaak: Hammersmith Apollo

16/10/2012

Deliver us from surly musicians in jeans and baseball boots. Let us be blinded by mirrored suits and touched inappropriately by covers of seemingly untouchable songs. Chris Isaak Live...

Big Boys Gone Bananas* [Film]

20/09/2012

Back in 2009 director Frederik Gertten was scheduled to premiere his latest film at the LA Film Festival. Called simply Bananas, it dealt with alleged abuses suffered by Nicaraguan workers who worked...

The Economy of Violence

11/09/2012

The fact that Hollywood often releases certain types of movies ‘en glut’ has led to conspiracy theories that it is manipulated by our old friend ‘dark forces’, but the truth is that this...

David Lynch : Crazy Clown Time [Deluxe Edition]

08/09/2012

David Lynch is a deft practitioner of ‘Vagueness of form’, as so evidently witnessed in Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Firewalk With Me, and, in fact - all his films. Crazy Clown Time uses a mixture...

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