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• Reading List: October.

  Fiction: Mick Herron: Slough House novels. Sarah Gailey: Spread Me. Quan Barry: The Unveiling. Yume Kitasei: Saltcrop. Caitlin Starling: The Graceview... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Good Boy

  

  is a very good film regardless but laden with a whole other layer of emotional resonance if the viewer has a dog of their own. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Joanne Robertson Oliver Coates - Always Were I'm running, I wonder where I'm goingYeah, I guess I'm goingI guess it's better than runningI see the lights,... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Horror Wednesday: Weapons

  

  There are two moments in Weapons that will stick in my mind for a while. They have nothing to do with finding broader themes in Zach Cregger’s follow-up to... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Horror Wednesday: American Sweatshop

  

  I’m just afraid of what’s gonna pop up next. The titular “American sweatshop” is a content moderation farm that Lili Reinart’s Daisy works at. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September.

  Fiction: John le Carré: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. John le Carré: The Looking Glass War. John le Carré: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Olivia... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Andor’s Make It Stop - I Don’t Have Lately. I Have Always.

  

  This is mainly about the episode Make It Stop, but there will be mention of events after and before as well, covering the entirety of Andor. Lonni Jung: And wha... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Non-Fiction: Hannah Kent: Always Home, Always Homesick. Sarah Weinman: Scoundrel. How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Sorry, Baby

  

  In an interview with the Guardian, director and actor Eva Victor described the effect of trauma on life this way: “it’s like a stone gets shoved into the river... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - I'll Steal Your Axe.

  

  heavens to betsy | axemen. lois | wet eyes. torres | strange hellos. lucy dacus | big deal. clipping. |dominator. aminé feat. waxahatchee | history. kate tempes... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• 28 Years Later

  

  When I think about Danny Boyle’s original 28 Days Later, which came out in 2002, I think of it as a film released at a moment in time that now feels like the... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• “One Has to Take Sides, If One is to Remain Human.”

  

  “I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.”I hadn’t read Graham Greene before. My only connection to his works was... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: July.

  Non-Fiction: Nick Turse: Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam. Fiction: Janelle Brown: What Kind of Paradise. Christina Li: The Manor... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The End of the Road in Poker Face

  

  “If you ask me a question and I lie, who are you having a conversation with? Nobody.”Spoilers for the second season of Poker Face! Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: June.

  Non-Fiction: Fergus Fleming: Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole. Stefan Zweig: Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers. Fiction:... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 17/06/25

  Politics: I spent the last week reading Stefan Zweig's posthumously published autobiography The World of Yesterday (Die Welt von Gestern, in German). Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  

  Non-Fiction: Kristen Kish: Accidentally on Purpose. Diana Preston: A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - We Are Both Alive to See This. Together.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x10 The Handmaid's Tale. June: Boston is free. The Gilead occupation is over. We won. Here at least. Boston is America again. Praise... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – They Don’t Get to Decide Who You Are Anymore.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x09 Execution.As armed Handmaids wreak havoc upon the households of their Commanders, the group of Red Centre Handmaids including Moira,... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - You’re Just Like the Rest of Them.

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 6x08 Exodus.Who were we under these clothes? Who could we be? Who had they prevented us from being? Exodus is a thrilling episode. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO