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* NB: This unpublished and hereto unseen review was written many years ago for Exposed Magazine’s June 2023 edition. Karmode insists "spineless" editor Joe Food blacklisted him from publication after "cowing to the will of philistinic money-grubbing advertisers", although Food insists he could not have used the piece because he received it unfinished over a week past deadline. Records align with Food. 50 years is a really long time. A 50-year-old person is well on their way

My friend works at Street Food Chef and recently got a negative review accusing him of serving his friends before other paying customers. To rectify this, I decided to write a glowing review for the establishment. It's a little over the top, but nothing is fabricated. I do genuinely love the place. Click here to see the review on Google or read below. Only two things in life are certain: 1) I will literally never, for any reason, set foot in Champs* 2) A Sharrow Street Food

I've decided to write about the song that's been stuck in my head for the last week or so , partly because I have no other ideas and partly because I hope writing about it will rid me of its unabating audial grasp. Oh, I should probably say, I know nothing about music. That will become very apparent in my painfully generic descriptions of noise... I feel sorry for anyone unfamiliar with Jerry Paper's music . His unique funky sounds (how am I doing?) have provided a soundtrack

The Disaster Movie genre of cinema is one of its most revered. Delivering a hypothetical 'what if' premise to the big screen forces...

One of the notable features of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) which has allowed it to permeate the consciousness of its readers for over 200 years is the timelessness of its precautionary message; can science go too far? Has it gone too far already? Shelley’s tale of playing God and its horrifying consequences focuses on the life of Victor Frankenstein, a man whose unaddressed grief forces him down a path of scientific obsession, one that leads him to the holy grail of hu

Think of the movie sequels considered better than their predecessors. The Godmother Part II (1974), The Dark Night (2008), Peter Jackson...

The father of a kidnapped teenage girl must use his particular set of skills - acquired over a very long career - to look for, find, and...