William Harrop reviews Interpol’s latest EP.
Hack Attack: An interview with Nick Davies
On a bright Friday afternoon at the end of March, Nick Davies, the multi-award-winning journalist sat down for an interview with Exeposé Features. Davies was in Exeter to deliver a talk as a part of Exeter’s ‘Creative Dialogues’ series, in conversation with Honorary Exeter Professor of Film Practice and renown director, producer and screenwriter, Don […]
His Master’s Victory?
HMV is a high-street staple. As a teenager, spying its neon pink sign from across a crowded shopping centre was a feeling not unlike finding an oasis in the desert, and swaggering out of the store with an album or a TV box-set was the closest you could get to a spiritual experience on a […]
Nigeria hits the polls
With 73 million able to vote and 120,000 polling stations nationwide, Africa’s largest democracy braced itself for what was seen as its biggest election yet. In 1999, Nigeria finally emerged from the oppression of a military regime, allowing democracy to flourish for the first time in 33 years, with 2019 marking 20 years of free […]
Album Review: Interpol’s Marauder
When compared to the avalanche of indie rock bands that sprung from the New York concrete in the early 2000s, Interpol are something of an exception. With the principle founders meeting in a history class on the First World War at NYU, ‘rock n’ roll’ is hardly a phrase that springs to mind. However, unlike […]
Remember This – Bruiser
It’s hard to believe now, but some of the biggest names in British comedy, now bearded, greying and balding, were once fresh faced, jubilant hopefuls in the distant mists of the early 2000s. It’s even more difficult to believe that they once all worked on the same show. Bruiser was a quirky comedy sketch show […]
Review: You Were Never Really Here
Dark, brooding and savagely violent, You Were Never Really Here never loosens its grip on your attention. Lynne Ramsay’s newest film smacks of the same neon saturated sleeplessness of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, whilst also sculpting something uniquely unsettling and relentless in its momentum. You Were Never Really Here, adapted from the Johnathan Ames book […]
Tintin: behind the quiff
Donning a perpetually immaculate quiff of blond hair, a pair of perfectly creased plus fours and always accompanied by his alcoholic fox terrier, Snowy, Tintin needs no introduction. The brainchild of Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi under the pen name Hergé, Tintin has pinged around the world like a human pinball, foiling the dastardly plots of […]
A dangerous legacy- The Balfour Declaration
One hundred years ago, a single document of 67 words caused seismic shifts in the Middle East, the reverberations of which are still felt to this day. The Balfour Declaration, penned by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour on 2 November 1917, announced British support for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine for the minority […]
Isle of Dogs: Another Anderson classic?
After 3 years of fervid anticipation, Wes Anderson has released the trailer for his upcoming animated film Isle of Dogs. This will be the second animated film in Anderson’s long and impressive filmography, since 2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox – a fresh take on the popular Roald Dahl book marinated in Wes’ characteristic quirks and twists. […]