FREEDOM / OH COMELY
Some negative qualities are sexier than others. Literature groans under the weight of moody, narcissistic and casually cruel characters that readers can’t help but forgive as they’re so damned charming. READ MORE
XAVIER DOLAN (IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD) / CURZON
Having made six films in seven years, 27-year-old Xavier Dolan has established himself as one of the most industrious contemporary filmmakers. His first film outside Canada draws together an impressive READ MORE
INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS #4.5: WORKING NIGHTS AT CHRISTMAS / OH COMELY
Due to a clerical error at the job centre you have been employed as the new Father Christmas. There is little on your CV to suggest that you would be READ MORE
MAREN ADE / OH COMELY
Toni Erdmann doesn’t quite exist. Maren Ade’s third feature isn’t named after either of its main characters but rather a mid-film persona adopted by Winfried (Peter Simonischek), a shambling, melancholic READ MORE
SARA PASCOE / OH COMELY
In the introduction to Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, Sara Pascoe writes, “I’m not attempting to be the last word in a conversation, I just want to READ MORE
SIX RETURNS FROM THE DEAD / OH COMELY
The end of the line. The final stop. This bus terminates here. There is a place where each of us is heading, a biological inevitability built into our cells. Just READ MORE
THE TIME TRAVELLER’S LIFE / OH COMELY
“Jason, can you hear me?”, I said to the empty bedroom. “Are you there?”
Apparently I was not. I got up from my seat, plodded to the doorway. “Jason, I READ MORE
INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS #4: LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT
Not for the first Tuesday in your life, you are making circuits of the park in search of an acceptable bench. Your criteria is modest but complicated: the bench must READ MORE
A CHRISTMAS CAROL / OH COMELY
It’s surely not a coincidence that our most ebullient rituals occur during the bleakest days of the year. As winter batters its fists upon the windows, tradition is a friendly READ MORE
OUR NATIONAL EX / OH COMELY
They don’t make them how they used to. There’s nothing good on the television. The music teenagers listen to now is terrible. The high street has changed beyond all recognition. READ MORE