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Images by Theadora Denyer, @dodo.photographics Originally published by The Indiependent on the 18th August 2025. I go to a lot of gigs—at least compared to most of my friends—in Brighton, where I live, and in London. A lot of them are rock or post-punk. Some hip hop, some dance, some at festivals.  Some highlights this year for me have been Jamie XX at Primavera Sound and TRAAMS at The Great Escape. Most of the time, I love it, I don’t care too much about waiting in line for

The Smashing Machine (2025) © A24 Originally published by The Indiependent on the 20th November 2025. Since the release of Benny Safdie’s recent film The Smashing Machine (2025) starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, I have been exploring the pattern of a star being reborn in the Safdie Brothers’ films. First, we saw Robert Pattinson in Good Time (2017)—otherwise known for The Twilight Saga (2008-2012), a series of vampire teen romance films—the actor is now renowned to be one o

September and I saw quite an assortment of films. There was body horror in The Substance , Vampire motorbike riders from Psychomania,...

August for me has been a time for watching summery movies (mostly). The cinema has been slightly disappointing this summer, with few...

My thoughts on the festival, the musicians’ performances, and a tangent on why I get bored at electronic gigs but only just discovered...

July's highlight was certainly The Boys Season 4 , as we followed the Boys still trying to assassinate the supes, in conjunction with the...

Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film is perhaps the most idiosyncratic yet, but it lacks the jocular protagonist that we had from Poor Things ....