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Nice piece remembering Glasgow’s 90s DIY scene. I never saw Urusei Yatsura play but I loved their records and enjoyed their progression from twee enjoyers of Japanese culture to something a little more muscular and cynical. Suspected I heard them first on a Peel session, perhaps the one mentioned here. I have a couple of their 7-inch records somewhere.
I really do like this a lot. About as good as these things get (not intended to be faint praise). Half a star bump.
I don’t entirely know what I just watched. Perhaps that’s the point. It opens like a coming-of-age film about two kids bonding over a Buffy-esque TV show, then becomes something stranger. The Lynch comparisons are valid. Schoenbrun shoots suburbia soft and pink, and the Alex G score sits underneath everything like static you can’t quite tune out. The broader soundtrack, Caroline Polachek and yeule especially, is great. What stays with me is how patient the film is about not naming what it’s actually about. For anyone working through questions of identity and dysphoria, I suspect this will matter for a long time.
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Leo Robson’s memoir of adolescent cinephilia. Six hundred films at the cinema in late-90s London, exercise books of star ratings, a filing cabinet of newspaper cuttings.
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The making of West Germany’s 1990 World Cup shirt. Fair to call it ‘iconic’? I think so.
Watched on Saturday March 7, 2026.
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Twenty years later, 90s indie rock icons Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein reflect on the tumultuous times surrounding their ill-fated and short-lived major label record deal.
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To mark the special Alan Partridge episode turning 30, Simon Bland chats to Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front and more about the making of a Christmas classic
