Every band has been there: you’ve just had a hit album — then your Johnny Marr-esque guitarist quits. Meet the group that came up with a crazy solution … On the fourth or fifth day, when all six of us were playing, we saw some homeless people hanging outside Isaac’s house,” he says. “It occurred […]
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Michael Vaughan, at a press conference ahead of England’s final pool match against Kenya (today’s Guardian): Do I think the problem persists? That is a hard question,“ he said, â€and if I’m honest I have to say yes, maybe it does go on. I have never experienced it within any of my teams or with any […]
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”