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• Yellowjackets – I’ve Already Lost.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x04 12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis. I think this is the first week where I’m genuinely fascinated by the structure of the episode, but can’t... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Presence

  

  Contains spoilers for Presence, a film that I think is most effective the least the viewer knows about it beforehand. I’ve always been a fan of haunted house... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: February.

  Non-Fiction: Richard Overy: Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945.Steve Coll: The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – How the Fuck is Any of This Real?

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x03 Them's the Brakes. Mari: I think maybe there are two versions of reality. Most of the time, the other one, the bad one is just hiding or... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 25/2/25

  Politics: I think the two grimmest surprises about the second Trump presidency is the combination of the breakneck speed at which it is dismantling democracy... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - They’re Coming.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x02 Dislocation.Some of the best tension of these past season of Yellowjackets has come from the way that the adults are integrating or denying... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – Fucking Sacrifices and Miracles.

  

  Yellowjackets: 3x01 It Girl.They could never go home again, because of what they’d done, because of what they became. It’s such an interesting choice for... Read more

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

• The Newsreader - 1989

  

  "I just feel working together, you know, you me and the story, that was the happiest time of my life."There is a moment in The Newsreader’s final episode of... Read more

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

• Reading List: January.

  Non-Fiction: Manisha Sinha: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.Wright Thompson: The Barn: The Secret History of a... Read more

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

• Lizzie

  

  Borden – historically, a woman accused of the murder of her father and her step-mother, found not guilty by a jury – has managed to become a blank canvas for... Read more

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

• On David Lynch's Death

  

  There have been so many thoughtful and profound things written about the life and death of David Lynch - I was moved by this Vulture article talking about... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• A Ceasefire

  "On Wednesday, after months of negotiations, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire deal. While it will become clear over the next days and months exactly what th... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 13/1/25

  Politics:It's not hard to predict what the long-term consequences of the increasing destruction of any kind of meaningful content moderation on the most... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• We Were Dangerous

  

  Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s We Were Dangerous is bookended by two escapes, one thwarted, one, perhaps mainly by virtue of ending the film in the right place,... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2025 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• I Used to Be Funny

  

  My favourite thing about Ally Pankiw’s film is its structure, and how it creates tension by telling the story through flashbacks. Read more

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

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Erik Larson: The Demon of Unrest.Amitav Ghosh: Smoke and Ashes. Becca Rothfeld: All Things Are Too Small. Fiction: Richard Powers:... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  

  Best new show:ShōgunShōgun sends British navigator John Blackthorne (a great Cosmo Jarvis) to "The Japans", a country closed for trade to anyone but the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  I Saw the TV Glow (2024, Jane Schoenbrun) Kaibutsu (2023, Kore-eda Hirokazu)Pamyo (2024, Jang Jae-hyun) Les chambres rouges (2023, Pascal Plante) Janet Planet... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  

  Sleater-Kinney / Little RopeMary Timony / Untame the TigerKim Gordon / The Collective Waxahatchee / Tigers BloodBeth Gibbons / Lives OutgrownGossip / Real... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Des Teufels Bad

  

  Ich wollt einfach weg von der Welt. I wanted to be gone from the world.Without having read about the film and what inspired it first, I found it incredibly... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO