Author: Alice Porter


  • Rammstein – Mein Land

    As an accompanying single to Rammstein’s upcoming best-of album Made in Germany 1995–2011, ‘Mein Land’ does a good job of summing up their musical power and ‘oomph’. Rammstein’s wonderfully humorous style is put to good use in a video which contrasts the dark, industrial metal Germans with a sunny beach setting, parodying Baywatch and The […]

  • Bill Bailey’s Dandelion Mind at the Brighton Centre, 9/11/11

    Bill Bailey points out during the beginning of Dandelion Mind that he was recently voted the seventh most intelligent person on TV. In a poll topped, obviously, by should-be Prime Minister Stephen Fry, Bailey is proud and right to make his audience aware of his intelligence. Such a statement may seem egotistical, but he manages […]

  • Childish, anarchic, and utterly fantastic: ‘A Town Called Panic’

    A surreal animation that revels in its hyperactive comedy genius, a truly original film.