Chris Robinson

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Senior Journalist at BBC

Journalist covering @BBCNEandCumbria for @BBCNews. My views.

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WSOP 2025 - Foreigners and Taxes

5 days ago | pokerlistings.com | Chris Robinson

News WSOP News The 2025 World Series of Poker is underway in Las Vegas and while we have commented frequently around issues that foreigners face entering the United States to play, and all the uncertainty that exists in the world, the reality is that this will not stop everyone from travelling internationally to the biggest poker series in the world this year.
10 Shorts You Don't Want To Miss At Annecy 2025

1 week ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson

FestivalsShorts Stay informed with free updates: Sign up to get our news digest — delivered directly to your inbox twice a week. While Hungary is the country of focus at this year’s Annecy animation festival, it’s Canada that’s stealing the spotlight in both the short and feature competitions.
Eva Lusbaronian On Her Short 'Death Of The Fish' (Exclusive Trailer)

1 week ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson

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Chu-Chieh Lee's 'Minus Plus Multiply' Is A Graphic Feast That Explores The Complexities Of Identity

2 weeks ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson

Cartoon Brew PickStudent Minus Plus Multiply (2024) is a graphic feast that explores the complexities of identity. A woman struggles to find her own path as she navigates a strange environment filled with towering containers. Animated films about solitary figures wandering surreal landscapes in search of freedom are common — even clichéd — but Chu-Chieh Lee’s Minus Plus Multiply stands out.
'Small Town Madness' Is A Wild And Hallucinogenic Music Video By Sujin Kim

3 weeks ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson

Cartoon Brew PickCGIMusic Videos A trippy mixed-media music video, “Small Town Madness” is a visual roller coaster you’ll want to ride again and again. This wild, vibrant, and hallucinogenic video by Korean artist Sujin Kim (with live-action sequences directed by Au Matt) serves as the perfect funhouse mirror for the band Kiwi Hug’s pastiche of ska, drum and bass, pop, and post-punk sounds. As for the plot?
'Small Town Madness' Is A Wild And Hallucinogenic Music Video By Sujin Kim

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris Robinson

12 hours agoPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find a romantic partner. Dr. Casey Means’ recommendation to …
Winston Hacking & Phillippe Tardif's 'Listen2Me' Music Video

4 weeks ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson

Cartoon Brew PickMusic VideosStop Motion Canada’s animated collage wunderkind, Winston Hacking, teams up once again with stop-motion maestro Philippe Tardif to create “Listen2Me” — a blistering visual tour de force. Toss Terry Gilliam into a blender with Michael Snow, and you might end up with something as spectacular as Hacking’s “Listen2Me,” a music video for Foxwarren.
'Is That All There Is?' By Josh O'Caoimh

1 month ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson

Cartoon Brew PickMusic Videos If there’s a go-to song for times of personal or global stress, it has to be Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s haunting “Is That All There Is?,” memorably performed by Peggy Lee in the late 1960s and here reimagined by Irish singer Mary Coughlan. The lyrics recount house fires, circus spectacles, love’s triumphs and losses, and the ever-present specter of mortality.
'No Leaders, Please' Is An Exploration Of The Fluid And Shapeshifting Nature Of Identity

1 month ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson

Cartoon Brew Pick Oscar-winning animator Joan Gratz’s take on a Charles Bukowski poem has just landed online. Ironically beginning with a leader countdown, Gratz’s No Leaders, Please (2020) feels at first like a call to eradicate the madness that governs our world. In reality, it’s an exploration of identity — its fluidity and shapeshifting nature. Bukowski, through Gratz’s lens, seems to plead that we resist the pull of the average and the mediocre.
The Oscar-Shortlisted Film 'Eeva' Has Debuted Online

1 month ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson

Cartoon Brew Pick A fast-paced, darkly comic take on grief and guilt, Morten Tšinakov & Lucija Mrzljak’s Eeva (2022) — shortlisted for the Oscars in 2023 — is now available online. The latest offering from the award-winning Estonian duo opens at a funeral. It’s a miserably rainy day. A grieving woman — who may or may not have nudged fate along — and a quartet of everymen head to a post-funeral reception at a local restaurant. Booze flows. Music plays. Tables are turned.