Author name: Ian Robinson

New Music Playlist – 26th March 2023

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I added 18 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-26th-march-2023/pl.u-11qBBF8oq7

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Generous Gods – I Never Loved Nobody – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – Chew – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Arielle – ’73 – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Calista Garcia – Flowers in My Hair – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Jealous of the Birds – Morse Code – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Malingo – Differences – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

DRAMA – Tighten It Up – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Caroline Romano – Guts – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Freya Ridings – Can I Jump? – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Bebe RexHa – Heart Wants What It Wants – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Tilsen – All We Never Said – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Major Love – Live the Dream – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

sad alex – Congrats I Hate U – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Gabi Garbutt & Du Blonde – Panic – Single on Apple Music – Gabi Garbutt Instagram – Link Site – Du Blonde Instagram – Link Site

Halflives – EVERYTHING SUCKS! – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Forster & Hopes – Where Would You Go? – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

L. A. Exes – Call Your Girlfriend – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Daisy Ford – London – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 19th March 2023

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I added 17 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-19th-march-2023/pl.u-aZX07IPXbm

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

CATT – Change – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Sahara Beck – Like You – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

SOKOJO – More (Deluxe EP) – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Sabrina Carpenter – emails I can’t send fwd: – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Aleighcia Scott – Do You – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Erin K – Keep Here – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Lauren Monroe – Love Is Alive – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Brooke Annibale – Samson – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Azure Ryder – Angel – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Champs of the Sun – Lights Out – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Aly & AJ – With Love From – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Sidney Bird – Fire With Fire – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Riley Pearce & MADDY MAY – Habit – Single on Apple Music – Riley Pearce Instagram – Link Site – Maddy May Instagram – Link Site

Misha Fair – Memphis – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Christine and the Queens – PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Sam Roberts Band – Picture of Love – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Blu DeTiger – Lipstick – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 12th March 2023

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I added 15 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-12th-march-2023/pl.u-JPkZNTDKPB

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Roanoke – Selene (Live Extended Version) – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

LYRA – You – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Deva St. John – Nauseous Ad Nauseam – EP on Apple Music – Instagram

Faithless Town – Tears Rolling Down – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Yorxe – Questions Later – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Crying Day Care Choir – Feel Something – EP on Apple Music – Instagram 

Fever Ray – Radical Romantics – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Family of Things – Flowers On the Wall – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Able Machines – Watch the World Die – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

KWAYE – Too Late – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

The Bites – Squeeze – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Thea & The Wild – Digging Out Vol. One – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

The Fynches – Glow / There Will Always Be Shade – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Freddie And The Scenarios – Begin Again – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Ane Brun – Portrayals – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 5th March 2023

| | Music

I added 15 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-5th-march-2023/pl.u-e9XWphzbV1

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Daisy Jones & The Six – Aurora – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

sad alex – rolling stoned – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Birdy – Portraits – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Nadia Sheikh – Quiet – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

The Eves – After the Love – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Suki Waterhouse – To Love – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Jack Wakeman & The Dreamstriders – The Witching Hour – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Prima Queen – Not the Baby – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Momma – Big Bang – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Tommy Ashby – Lamplighter – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Dirty Blonde – Come Over – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Daughter – Stereo Mind Game – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Morganway – World Stopped Running – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

GurisLamar – Beautiful Lies – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 26th February 2023

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I added 10 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-26th-february-2023/pl.u-11qGYf8oq7

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Obey Robots – One in a Thousand – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

beabadoobee– Glue Song – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Sugarmoon – Peaches & Cream – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Seany Clarke – First Aid Kit – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Little Known Artist – HVAC – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Vôx Vé – We Went Looking For Art – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Peacebone – Sad To See – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Maddie Zahm – STEP ON ME – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Georgian – M-M-M-M-M-M – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Raynes – Miami Underwater – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 19th February 2023

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I added 18 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-19th-february-2023/pl.u-aZXEDIPXbm

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Dea Matrona – Get My Mind Off – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Freya Ridings – Face in the Crowd – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Kerala Dust – Violet Drive – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Hēir – Rewind – Single on Apple Music – Instagram 

Obey Robots & Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Elephant – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – NAD Web Site

MADITRONIQUE – Je T’Adore – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Inhaler – Cuts & Bruises – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Tilsen – What Changed – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

GERD – Stay. – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Strayers – Table For Two – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Wyn Starks & Fisk Jubilee Singers – At The End OF The River – EP on Apple Music – Wyn Starks Instagram – Link Site – Fisk Jubilee Singers Instagram – Link Site

The Beauty of Gemina – When the Night Is Back in Me – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Raynes – Drive You Back Home – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Storm Orchestra – Suspect – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Ariana and the Rose – Girl Who Comes Next – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Niall Horan – Heaven – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Sasha Atlas – On Fire – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Queen Cult – For Now, Not Forever – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 12th February 2023

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I added 8 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-12th-february-2023/pl.u-JPk1ZCDKPB

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

CATT – Change – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Web Site

Sophie Lindinger – Sophie Lindinger – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Reddle – In My Mind – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Pokkisham – Cages – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Halflives – everybody knows it – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

The Optimists – Last and Found – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Obey Robots & Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Porcupine – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – NAD Web Site 

Paramore – This is Why – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Web Site

New Music Playlist – 5th February 2023

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I added 12 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-5th-february-2023/pl.u-JPkP3IDKPB

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Delores Forever – When I Say So – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Versus Savannah – Six Years – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Emily James – Happy for Me – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Inhaler – These Are The Days – Partial album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Sophie Lindinger – Say My Name – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

The Bites – Do Me A Favor – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Jake Swamp and the Pine – Simpson & Banks – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

HUNNY BUZZ – Love Me Like You Used To – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Web Site

Heidrunna – Ycbcc – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Delta Heavy & Lauren L’aimant – Against The Tide – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – Lauren L’aimant Instagram – Lauren L’aimant Link Site

Sick Joy – Painkiller – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Andy Summers – Bring on the Night (feat. 40 Fingers) – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – 40 Fingers Instagram 

New Music Playlist – 29th January 2023

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I added 8 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-29th-january-2023/pl.u-V9X9pCBb7a

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

dee holt – Better – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

We Are Scientists – Lobes – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Lua Lelia – Home – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Alice Merton – Waste My Life – Single on Apple Music – Instagram –  Website

Zookino – Survive – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

The Allergies – Reconcile – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – Charles Morgan Instagram

Fever Ray – Radical Romantics – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Fe Salomon – Living Rooms – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 21st January 2023

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I added 13 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-21st-january-2023/pl.u-mJXJrtz4ga

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Måneskin – Rush – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Cajsa Siik – Artificial Love – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Alessandra – Queen of Kings – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Oliver Sim – GMT (Jamie xx Remix) – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – Jamie xx Instagram – Jamie xx Link Site

Lexie Carroll – violet – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Bonnie Kemplay – Running Out of Things To Say, Running Out of Things To Do – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Gabry Ponte & Alessandra – Dance Dance – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – Alessandra Instagram

David Guetta & Bebe Rexha – I’m Good (Blue) [Acoustic] – Single on Apple Music – David Guetta Instagram – David Guetta Link Site – Bebe Rexha Instagram 

Yagua – Monuments to the Unknown – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Charlotte Branson – Hypnotized – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Seany Clarke – Busy O (Kicking’ me Some Ass – Single on Apple Music – Instagram 

WILDES – Other Words Fail Me – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Sutcliffe – Kingdom of Dixit – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 15th January 2023

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I added 12 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-15th-january-2023/pl.u-aZPRZsPXbm

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

The Subways – Uncertain Joys – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Liela Moss – Internal Working Model – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Unit 47 – Nothin’ At All – Single on Apple Music – Instagram 

Freya Ridings – Blood Orange – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Circa Waves – Never Going Under – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Etta Marcus – Heart Shaped Bruise – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Hazlett – Bloom Mountain – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Phia – Socially Done (feat. Searching for Lil) – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – Searching for Lil Instagram – 

T.I.G.Y. – World of Want – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Cajsa Siik – Sometimes – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Tilsen – Love of Your Life – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Ane Brun – Nærmere – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 8th January 2023

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I added 11 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-8th-january-2023/pl.u-JPvY2FDKPB

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Liela Moss – Internal Working Model – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

The Sweeplings – Fever Running Loose – Single on Apple Music – Instagram 

The Utopiates – Illuminise – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Ticket Site

Skaly – Snow for the First Time – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Mastodon – Link Site

The Mannas – Let’s Play – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Gabrielle Aplin – Phosphorescent – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Tommy Ashby – Floorboards – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Jo-Jo & The Teeth – No More Good News – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Byolegy – Lazy Sunday Vibe (feat. Anastasia Derkach) – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – YouTube – Anastasia Derkach Instagram

The Kings of Cool – Good To Be Alive – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Web Site

Inhaler – Cuts & Bruises – Partial Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

New Music Playlist – 1st January 2023

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I added 5 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-1st-january-2023/pl.u-mJAzEIz4ga.

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Lucy Wroe – Same World – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Abbey Sage – The Florist – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Leah Marie Mason – Trust Fund Cowboy – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Standing’ Man – If You Don’t Know What to Do With Yourself – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

MARYELLE – Wild One – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Website

Favourite Podcasts from 2022

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Here are the podcasts that I enjoyed the most in 2022. With links to their landing pages or to Apple Podcasts if I don’t have that info.

No Such Thing as a Fish – Homepage

Station Eleven Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Stephen Fry’s All In The Mind – Audible

Jay Rayner Out to Lunch – Apple Podcasts

The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry – BBC Radio 4

Sean Carroll’s Mindscape – Landing Page

Countdown With Keith Olbermann – Apple Podcasts

Write Now With Scrivener – Landing Page

Origin Story – Podcast Page

Accidental Tech Podcast – Podcast website

The Rework Podcast – Landing Page

Under The Radar – Relay FM Podcast Landing Page

2022 Walking Stats

| | General

Here is my exercise data for 2022 as recorded by Apple Watch. 

Total steps: 2,774,537

Total distance in Km: 2,485

Total distance in miles: 1,544

Charts and tables with the data are below. I only really started forcing myself to exercise more in April. So with the extra time in 2023, I might be able to hit 3,000 Km.

BTW the data for compiling these stats was exported from Apple Health in CSV format using HealthExport. A fantastic app.

 

Chart showing the number of steps I took each month during 2022. With a point for each month joined by straight lines. And a blue trend line slopping up from about 150,000 steps per month in January to 300,000 per month in December. The chart peaks in the summer months, from May to August.
The number of steps I took each month in 2022
Chart showing the number of kilometres I walked each month during 2022. With a point for each month joined by straight lines. And a blue trend line slopping up from about 140 km per month in January to 270 km per month in December. The chart peaks in the summer months, from May to August.
The number of kilometres I walked per month during 2022.
A spreadsheet table showing the two columns of data that show the number of steps I took and the kilometres walked each month in 2022, with a total number of steps of 2,774,537, and a total distance in kilometres of 2,484.99.
A table showing the steps and kilometres I walked each month in 2022.

Favourite Books Read in 2022

| | Books

I read 36 books in 2022. Here are my favourites.

How To Be A Liberal book cover
How to Be a Liberal
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes
Einstein's Fridge book cover
Einstein's Fridge
Sticky book cover
Sticky
Transformer book cover
Transformer - The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
The Lost Future Of Pepperharrow book cover
The Lost Future Of Pepperharrow
The This novel book cover
The This
Sea Of Tranquility book cover
Sea Of Tranquility
The Anthropocene Reviewed cover
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Immune book cover
Immune

My Top 10 New Music Tracks from 2022

| | Music

Here are my favourite 10 songs released in 2022. In no particular order.

All My Friends – Stereo Jane.
Check Your Feelings – A.b. Violet.
Not Another Rockstar – Maisie Peters.
Drama – My Life As A Moth.
The Rip – Porridge Radio.
Lonely Choir – Vôx Vé.
Caterpillar – Julie Odell.
Honest (feat. Slayyyter) – Peking Duk.
Isabella – June Again.
Proof (feat. Stella Donnelly) – Methyl Ethel.

There is a Music playlist with the tracks embedded below.

Favourite Films Seen in 2022

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I watched 68 new (or recent) film releases during 2022. Broken down across cinema and home streaming as follows:

Seen in cinema: 29. Seen via home streaming: 39.

The complete list of all 68 is on my New Film Releases Seen in 2022 page.

My favourites are listed below, along with what I said about them on social media. Any film that got a rating of 9 or 10 ⭐️ makes the end-of-year favourites list. They are not listed in order of preference but rather in the order I saw them.

CODA film poster
5th February - CODA. 10/10.
🖥 Via AppleTV+ on AppleTV.
Rating:
Rated 10 out of 10

All the good things I heard about CODA were true. It is an exceptional film. A brilliant cast, a great story, beautifully shot, a fabulous score, and songs. I’m only sorry I didn’t see it at the cinema. A must-see film. I got salty sea spray in my eyes at the end.

Update: I also got to see CODA in the Strand cinema on the 19th of April after it was rereleased due to winning the Academy Award for best picture.

The Worst Person In The World film poster
23rd March - The Worst Person In The World. 9/10.
🎥 in Omniplex Cinema Dundonald.
Rating:
Rated 9 out of 10

The Worst Person in the World is a tremendous film. Renate Reinsve is brilliant as the lead. Her character Julie can’t see things through. I so related to that. As anyone who knows me will attest I’m like that. I also related to the mushrooms trip, a story for another time!

Everything Everywhere All at Once film poster
13th May - Everything Everywhere All at Once. 9/10.
🎥 in Omniplex Cinema Dundonald.
Rating:
Rated 9 out of 10

I loved Everything Everywhere All At Once. It’s quirky, manic, nods to plenty of other films, has a message I fully endorse, and entropy gets a shout-out in the credits song. What’s not to like.

The Novice film poster
7th May - The Novice. 9/10.
🖥 via Apple Store Rental on AppleTV.
Rating:
Rated 9 out of 10

The Novice film is superb. It’s a brutalist study of obsessive drive to be the best in the things you do. Brutalist in the architecture of the campus and the intense training. Isabelle Fuhrman is remarkable as the lead. Amy Forsyth is great as support. The music and videography are brill.

Top Gun Maverick film poster
27th May - Top Gun: Maverick. 9/10.
🎥 in Omniplex MAXX Dundonald.
Rating:
Rated 9 out of 10

I enjoyed Top Gun: Maverick way more than I expected. A lot more. It’s formulaic, has plot beats where you’d expect them, and a predictable ending. But it doesn’t matter. It’s visually stunning. The flight scenes are incredible. And it’s not jingoistic. Thankfully!

See it on the biggest screen you can.

The Valet film poster
20th May - The Valet. 10/10.
🖥 via Disney+ on AppleTV.
Rating:
Rated 10 out of 10

I really enjoyed The Valet film. It’s a story about how people are just people at the end of the day. Irrespective of what circles of society they move in. You can be rich and still be alone. It’s a love letter to people who too often get treated as invisible by others. Recommended. Eugenio Derbez and Samara Weaving are ace in lead roles. The supporting cast is good as well. Streaming now on Disney+ in the Uk and Hulu in the USA (and Canada I assume). I upped my rating from 9 to 10 after repeated viewings. Fuller review published here.

The Quiet Girl film poster
1st September - The Quiet Girl. 10/10.
🖥 via Apple Store Rental on AppleTV.
Rating:
Rated 10 out of 10

Holy moly. The Quiet Girl is definitely on my favourite films of the year list. It’s a remarkable work. Catherine Clinch is brilliant in the title role of Cáit. Andrew Bennett and Carrie Crowley are also superb. It’s a subtle story about grief, loss, and new connections. A must-watch film.

See How They Run film poster
10th September - See How They Run. 9/10.
🎥 in Omniplex Dundonald.
Rating:
Rated 9 out of 10

I laughed out loud a lot watching See How They Run. So did many others. I emerged into the afternoon sun with a huge grin. It’s fantastic. Very noir in places. With a gumshoe-like detective. Saoirse Ronan is comedy gold as the constable. Some bits have a Wes Anderson vibe. I suspect I’ll be at the cinema to see it again soon. So good 😘 

Narrator: He was. The next day. It was just as good the second time!

Don't Worry Darling film poster
23rd September - Don't Worry Darling. 9/10.
🎥 in Omniplex MAXX Dundonald.
Rating:
Rated 9 out of 10

Don’t Worry Darling is right smack in the sweet spot of Sci-fi stories I like. Think “what’s behind the facade of small-town America” novels. I can’t say more without spoilers. Suffice to say that I loved it. It looks fab. The Dolby sound is fantastic. The cast is great. See it.

She Said film poster
26th November - She Said. 9/10.
🎥 in Omniplex Dundonald.
Rating:
Rated 9 out of 10

She said is a fantastic film. It tells the story of the reporters (and managers) at The New York Times who investigated and published the story about Harvey Weinstein’s manipulation and sexual harassment of young women in his company and actresses on film projects. The story ignited the #metoo movement and led to the trial, conviction, and imprisonment of Weinstein. The film is done brilliantly. I loved it and had pesky New York Times print run dust in my eyes three times. Easily one of my films of the year.

New Music Playlist – 25th December 2022

| | Music

I added 13 new music releases to my library this week. Here is a Music playlist with a selected track from each: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/ian-robinsons-new-music-playlist-25th-december-2022/pl.u-mJAaRTz4ga.

There is an Apple Music player embedded below as well. Links to other music streaming services are available via the Link Site URLs for each artist below.

Here are links to each release on Apple Music, the artist’s Instagram accounts, and their links page or website

Martin Feral – A Break From Me – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Aspen Jacobsen – Arsonist Daughter – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Manu Meyer – Girls Don’t Lie – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Marisa And The Moths – Pedestal (Stripped) – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Maeby – Best Part of Me Is You – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

The Max Headroom – Days On Days – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Thomas Deed – New Star Rising – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Casey Rose – Honest Woman – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Roanoke – Wolf Motel – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Lucius Arthur – A Violent Dichotomy – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Mark Daly – Nothing To Lose – EP on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Anna Mieke – Theatre – Album on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site

Byolegy – Move On (Feat. Aistė) – Single on Apple Music – Instagram – Link Site – Aistė Instagram 

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