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Florence + the Machine's 'frightening' performances

Music Gossip

31 Oct 2011

Florence + the Machine's live performances are "violent and frightening and overwhelming." Singer Florence Welch, who fronts the musical project, feels like she has been transported to another world when she's touring, where she neglects the "typical…

Cherry Tree Lane and The Killer Inside Me follow recent trend for arthouse violence

Cherry Tree Lane and The Killer Inside Me follow recent trend for arthouse violence

Is extreme violence an easy option for directors with nothing to say?

22 Aug 2010

Paul Andrew Williams’s Cherry Tree Lane is a real-time enactment of the break-in and torture of a middle class suburban couple by vengeful teenagers. At a mere 77 minutes, it’s still a brutal, unpleasant endurance test, and much of its power comes from…

Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre - James Kendrick

Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre - James Kendrick

16 Apr 2010

(Wallflower) James Kendrick’s short volume isn’t at all an ambitious book; and that is perhaps as much down to the nature of the commission as it is to the limitations of the writer. This is one of Wallflower publishing’s Short Cuts. The books are…

Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson

23 Aug 2007

Craig Davidson doesn’t pull any punches. We might as well get the terrible boxing pun out the way at the start, because his debut novel, The Fighter, is a brutally violent but brilliantly written tale set in the world of underground bare-knuckle…

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