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• Snowpiercer

  

  We need to save our souls. What a time to watch Snowpiercer, the television adaptation of the 2014 Bong Joon Ho film – to watch the creators of Orphan Black... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  Non-Fiction: Esmé Weijun Wang: The Collected Schizophrenias. Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics. Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist.Olivia Laing:... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – There is Only One Real End. I Will Write This One Myself.

  

  Westworld: 3x08 Crisis Theory.As a child, Engerraund Serac saw a nuclear bomb destroy the world that he knew. He has dedicated his life to building a machine... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - Her Pan is for Us to Die.

  

  Westworld: 3x07 Passed Pawn.There are so many obvious references to Jonathan Nolan’s previous masterpiece, Person of Interest, in these final two episodes of th... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – This Isn’t Real.

  

  Westworld: 3x06 DecoherenceAs we are progressing towards an all-out war between the factions that have emerged in this third season of Westworld, the most... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year In Progress

  

  Non-Fiction: Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing. A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Reading List: April

  Non-Fiction: Joanne McNeil: Lurking. How A Person Became A User. Samra Habib: We Have Always Been Here. Diana B. Henriques: The Wizard of Lies. Bernie Madoff an... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – I Don’t Need to Know You.

  

  It is one of those popcultural coincidences that this third season of Westworld has started just as Devs ended, and that this third season has at its centre a... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – What If Every Choice You Made Wasn’t a Choice at All?

  Westworld: 3x04 The Mother of Exiles. The twist at the end of this episode isn’t much of a twist if you’ve paid attention to Dolores’ entire life. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - I Remember What It’s Like to Be Me.

  

  Westworld: 3x03 The Absence of Field. In a fieldI am the absenceof field.This isalways the case.Wherever I amI am what is missing. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Feel Good / Trigonometry

  

  My experience of watching the original run of The L Word, Ilene Chaiken’s six season monster, mirrors that of many other people: it was novel to watch a show... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – I Understand the Nature of My Reality.

  Westworld: 3x02 The Winter Line. In the first episode of this new reality, we have learned that Dolores is seeking the inventor of a supercomputer called The... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March

  Fiction: Holly Throsby: Goodwood.Joanna Kavenna: Zed. Chana Porter: The Seep.Nell Zink: Nicotine.Nell Zink: Mislaid.Jaye Robin Browin: The Meaning of Birds.Elle... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - You May Not Believe in a Higher Power, but Your Mind Was Built To.

  

  Westworld: 3x01 Parce Domine.To start off with, perhaps a paragraph about the nature of television in 2020 – no, not the more obvious thing, but about how... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Time to Take a Ride, Time to Take It in a Midnight Eye.

  

  John Balkwill - Bright Windy Night [via tumblr]sonic youth | dirty boots. garbage | cup of coffee. soccer mommy | cool. atlantic oceans | nuncora. caribou |... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: February

  Non-Fiction: Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The Fight For a Human Future At the New Frontier of Power.Emma Copley Eisenberg: The Third... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• High Fidelity

  

  I went into High Fidelity without knowing much about this new adaptation and with a fleeting memory of both Nick Hornby’s novel and the 2000 film version... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn

  

  Birds of Prey. It's 2020, the Joker, or, as Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie, at the time of watching this film in an Australian cinema also starring in a second... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: January.

  Non-Fiction: Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing. A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading Notes: William Gibson's Agency

  Less than thirty pages into William Gibson’s novel Agency, the second part of his Jackpot-trilogy which started with The Peripheral, and I’ve underlined so... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO