By Marty Mulrooney
Mad Men: The Illustrated World by Dyna Moe is an official tie-in book based on the hit series Mad Men created by Matthew Weiner. Essential reading for any fan of the show, it provides insight into mid-century American office culture, shares authentic food and drink recipes from the 1960’s and even offers tips on fashion and beauty!
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By Marty Mulrooney
Lenore, The Cute Little Dead Girl is a comic series created by Roman Dirge, inspired by the poem ‘Lenore’ by Edgar Alan Poe. Lenore is – quite literally – a cute little dead girl who lives in a place called Nevermore with her collection of extremely odd friends. Lenore: Cooties collects issues 9, 10, 11 and 12 of Lenore’s original comic, now digitally remastered and recoloured by Roman Dirge.
By Marty Mulrooney
An archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands. It is also the name of director Joanna Hogg’s second feature film, rather fittingly set on Tresco, the second largest island of the Isles of Scilly, which form an archipelago off the south-western tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. Shot from predominantly static camera angles and with no soundtrack to speak of, Archipelago offers an almost voyeuristic insight into the life of a family brought together for a quiet cottage holiday, before being pushed apart by the realisation that they are actually strangers.
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By Joseph Marshall
A distraught young man sits propped up against some rocks, panting and gathering his thoughts. In the background, choppy waters lap the shoreline. This is college student turned scientist Pavel Danilov and he is on the run from his armed and dangerous colleague Sergei. It’s a moment in which the audience as well as the man on screen can pause for breath, in what we assume is a temporary respite from his peril. But before we are given the chance, we have the dreadful realisation that his tormenter has bobbed into view again in the top left hand corner of the screen, aboard a small wooden vessel. He has a gun. Pavel unfortunately, is very much without a paddle.
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