Archive - The Metropolitan

Metropolitan Mixtape: April 2025

Alternative visions

Apr 26 •

Sapphire and Steel (1979--82)

…have been assigned

Apr 19 •

A catch-up with Miss Smilla

Apr 12 •

Dumpster diving with the Brothers Quay

Apr 8 •

1988: Then & Now… The Best of The Monkees

Monkees are the craziest people

Apr 5 •

March 2025

Metropolitan Mixtape: March 2025

Heroes and villains

Mar 29 •

‘Adolescence’, thirteen-year-old boys, and Mr Pigden

Mar 22 •

Steve Jobs (2015)

The trials of Jobs

Mar 19 •

Easy Rider (1969)

Directed by Dennis Hopper; written by Dennis Hopper (and Peter Fonda and Terry Southern); starring Dennis Hopper (and Peter Fonda). Saved from Dennis…

Mar 15 •

The Apprentice (2024)

The best are full of passionate intensity while the worst lack all convictions

Mar 12 •

I'm not watching 'Anora'

Admitting that you haven’t read/watched/consumed something is usually an argument-terminator.

Mar 8 •

J. R. R. Tolkien (Unwin, 1937)

Mar 1 •

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