Willis’ macabre and amusing science fiction classic
How would we interact with those from the distant past?
Issue 1687
2nd Mar 2018
What a shame it’s not Valentine’s day...
We’d meant to run this article for our Valentine’s Day issue a few weeks ago, but didn’t manage to. Oh well! A little bit late, Comment Writer Bamish Heck suggests some of the more outlandish things you could do next Valentine’s day
In The Whites…
Imperial College Musical Theatre Society’s latest production features a predominantly white cast pretending to be Latino in a musical intended to promote representation of this marginalised community.
I’m just saiyan: Dragon Ball FighterZ
After over thirty years, we finally have the perfect fighting game from the Dragon Ball franchise.
Huel: An ingenious solution for modern life, or the 21st-century workhouse gruel?
Hint: it’s the latter. This week Grumpy Bastard has a lot to say about Huel, and why it will doom humanity
Franz Ferdinand prove that they can still rock
Returning to another sold-out Brixton Academy, Franz Ferdinand demonstrated that their new material is just as capable as their back-catalogue of indie anthems at getting nearly five thousand people dancing. The band are touring their recently released fifth album, Always Ascending, which is their first in five years. In that
Felix Film’s guide to the Oscars – who will win, who should win, and who’ve been left out in the cold
We take you through our picks for the night
An intellectual perspective on progress and positivity in Enlightenment Now
With the help of the philosophies of the Enlightenment and a wealth of statistics, Steven Pinker’s new book seeks to answer questions of the current state of humanity.
An album for cold weather
It’s been a while since I wrote a proper review. This isn’t a proper review. Though really, they seldom are. I’ve listened to this album twice. Once yesterday while I was working, and once more this morning as I walked through the snow into the Felix office.
An afternoon with a quiet genius
Just looking at the elaborate setup laid out on stage before he made his appearance, it was hard to believe it was going to be a one-man show. Yet, for two hours, in what was the penultimate of four sold-out gigs at the Barbican, Nils Frahm dominated the stage only
Alvvays assert themselves with a spectacular show
In fluorescent light, antisocialites…” croons Molly Rankin during a superb live rendition of the track ‘Dreams Tonite’ from Alvvays’ most recent effort, Antisocialites. It’s easy to feel she’s describing the crowd as we stand captivated under dreamy stage lights with barely a sense of who’s around us.
A powerful revival of the mystery of Hanging Rock
The cult horror tale of missing schoolgirls in Australia gets an inventive twist in Tom Wright’s adaptation for the stage at the Barbican Centre.