Reviews on The Review

When is a new Prefab’s album not a new Prefab’s album?  When it was written and recorded in 1992-93, and isn’t played on by anyone other than Paddy McAloon.  And therein, perhaps, lies the problem.
McAloon is incapable of writing a bad song.  He also has that touch of the truly great songwriter in that the [...]

For readers whose wrists are still aching from nursing Thomas Pynchon’s previous novel, the gargantuan Against the Day, Inherent Vice - his latest bulletin from his own alternative version of America - may have arrived with unseemly haste. Yet at a mere 369 pages, this new work is not only lighter [...]

With so much debate today focussing on immigration, it seems strange that so few films have looked at the topic. Hollywood rarely goes near it for anything other than a new slant on romantic comedy (remember Green Card?) and Michael Winterbottom’s In this world remains a fairly rare instance in European cinema. Yet the immigrant [...]