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Taxi Driver (1976)
I’m the only one here
Jul 4
•
The Editors
and
Tobias Sturt
6
9
1
June 2026
Metropolitan Mixtape: June 2026
What The Metropolitan has been watching while delirious from the heat
Jun 27
•
The Editors
8
2
2
The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley (Titan Books, 1986)
Jun 20
•
The Editors
and
Tobias Sturt
14
7
3
I hate being on TV
The early 2000s weren’t all sparkles and rainbows (the clothes were awful, for one thing); but there was a sense that — to adapt the New Labour anthem …
Jun 13
•
Rowan Davies
17
6
4
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Can anyone else smell frying onions?
Jun 6
•
Tobias Sturt
and
The Editors
14
5
3
May 2026
Metropolitan Mixtape: May 2026
Heroes, super and otherwise
May 30
•
The Editors
9
1
2
West End girls and East End boys
Midway through The Gold (BBC, 2023), Neil Forsyth’s series about the 1983 Brinks Mat robbery, there’s a truly great parable about British class.
May 23
•
Rowan Davies
28
8
5
Moonlighting (1985 - 1989)
If people are missing, if objects are lost / we’ll find them for you, at reasonable cost
May 16
•
The Editors
and
Tobias Sturt
29
9
10
Reacher at rest
You can get a bit exhausted, sometimes, by the complexity of real life: the weight of people’s experiences and difficulties, and the way that absolutely…
May 9
•
Rowan Davies
21
5
4
1986: Gone To Earth
Growing up with David Sylvian
May 2
•
The Editors
and
Tobias Sturt
11
2
3
April 2026
Metropolitan Mixtape: April 2026
Comforts and discomforts
Apr 25
•
The Editors
,
Tobias Sturt
, and
Rowan Davies
10
The Pitt: progressives in despair
SPOILER WARNING:
Apr 18
•
Rowan Davies
143
77
23
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