Documenting the need-not-apply end of the global social scale.
Retelling of modern Hollywood’s origin myths plays it safe
The Last Kings of Hollywood is a no-surprises retelling of the rise to fame, wealth and power of filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Paul Fischer’s The Last Kings of Hollywood re-tells the foundational myths of the late 1960s/1970s era of American filmmaking. Despite naming the three famous filmmakers in its title,…
Schindler’s Watch List
Forgotten and derided Nazisploitation movies expose the lost power of trash cinema and put today’s neutered McMovies to shame. Of all the overused movie clichés, the inescapable prison doesn’t get anywhere near enough scorn. I lost interest in the recent Star Wars: Andor series at the sci‑fi prison with the electrified laser floor. Don’t start…
Nina Na Reviews Langkawi, Malaysia
Pity the destination as Team Nina Na (both of them) hit the Malaysian island, try its cable cars, avoid its feral monkeys and spend a lot of time at sea.
The consumer 1980s you remember grew up and became Bangkok
Bangkok’s devotion to shopping means the city experiences three rush-hours a day. The third occurs when the shops close. What would a world look like in which 80s-style malls and bricks-and-mortar consumerism survived to the modern day? In Bangkok today, Amazon is a coffee shop, online shopping is frowned upon, and the mega-mall dominates minds,…
Big Yellow Taxis Need to Park Somewhere
Are there uncontacted tribes in the concrete jungle? Or are we travellers just the mutant spawn of excessively photoshopped travel journalism and the white room horrors of package-holiday mind control? Step out and you’ll soon discover paradise is not a place, it’s a delusion occupied by seekers boarding the flight from reality. Out there,…
Exploring the Peerless Piers of Thailand’s Koh Kood
Perfect blue skies. Perfect blue seas. The Thai island of Koh Kood is an affordable and accessible alternative to the Maldives, with the bonus of the world’s best cuisine. Thailand’s islands are rightly popular destinations. Koh Samui and Koh Chang are perhaps the most visited; Koh Phangan is famed for its full moon parties. Many…
Lee Russell Wilkes 