Film review: Inception – mind-blowing, problematic or both?

Film review: Inception – mind-blowing, problematic or both?

Obviously, if a film discusses the mind as a physical space that can be broken into, secrets as objects that can be stolen and the subconscious as a violent population, it’s asking you to suspend reality. Still, there needs to be a measure of coherence within the film’s reality.

Learning the Lens: My Miniature World

Learning the Lens: My Miniature World

Laurence continues his photo blog “Learning the Lens” with photographs of a man and his miniature train set.

Twilight parody Vampires Suck cashes in on vampire love

Twilight parody Vampires Suck cashes in on vampire love

Film writer Liam Camps criticises Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer’s latest film Vampires Suck for cashing in on the success of Twilight instead of protesting against it.

Interview: Strawhouses’ new single ‘Malaise’ translates as melodic frustration

Interview: Strawhouses’ new single ‘Malaise’ translates as melodic frustration

With a name like Strawhouses and bizarre pig-riddled artwork, you might mistake ‘Malaise’ for a rural lament to the Bluegrass broken-hearted. Instead, the newly-released indie single hits you with a sound that is energetic, frustrated and positively industrial.

“I love fizz” – an English sparkling wine story in photographs

“I love fizz” – an English sparkling wine story in photographs

Larry Jarrett-Kerr photographed up-and-coming winemaker Tom Jones who left corporate life in London behind to delve into the world of winemaking in East Sussex. Tom tells Dressed in the Dark why he wanted to get outdoors, what’s good about the South-East countryside and that English sparkling wine is the next big thing. He also showed us around the stunning Bluebell Vineyard.

Book review: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

Book review: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

George and Sabine Harwood are the latest European exports to arrive in a country which is trying to shake itself free from its colonial past. They are unwanted. Sabine instantly acknowledges the foreignness of this new land, Trinidad, and its huge cultural weight pressing down on her.

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