Animals – Hit The North

Cat Lovers

In a predominantly dog lovers’ town, I’m a cat person. I glance sideways, but there are few moggy types there, and I’m sitting alone with a group of people who are immune to magical feline charms. I seem to forever be the sore thumb here. Bowie and The Cure sang about them; Angela Carter wroteContinue reading “Cat Lovers”

Disney’s Dream Debased: Alice

Few film makers are as incredible as the mighty Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer. Like so many people of my generation, I was first aware of him in the early 90s, when Channel 4 screened his singular adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, abbreviated to simply Alice Alice, created in 1988, was a revelation. Beautiful, disturbingContinue reading “Disney’s Dream Debased: Alice”