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• 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

• Foreign Policy Glimpse

  This week has brought new developments in the impeachment trial, mainly via a leaked excerpt from former national security adviser John Bolton's upcoming book. Read more

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

• Ready Or Not

  

  "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu

  

  We're in the same place. Exactly the same place. Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a painter and daughter of a painter, is sent to a remote island off the coast of... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  

  Albums: Stella Donnelly - Beware Of The Dogs.Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold.Solange Knowles - When I Get Home.Kate Tempest - The Book of Traps and... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream House. A Memoir.Alexis Coe: Alice+Freda Forever. A Murder in Memphis.Gabrielle Chen: Rusted Off: Why Country... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year

  

  Non-Fiction: Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.Leslie Jamison: The Recovering. Intoxication and Its Aftermath.Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  Best new show: UnbelievableEuphoriaI don't want to speculate if this is a realist look at what it means to be under 18 in 2019, and I don't think that's the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  Leave No Trace (2018)Portrait de la jeune fille en feuFast Color (2018)Captain MarvelMidsommarTransit (2018)The Rider (2017)Pokémon Detective PikachuMirai... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse - Table of Contents

  Season OneSeason Four:New TerraJetsamSubductionRetrogradeOppressorDisplacementA Shot in the DarkThe One-Eyed ManSaeculumCibola Burn Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse - I Think We Need Each Other.

  

  The Expanse: 4x10 Cibola Burn.One of the great advantages of being a major power in the universe of the Expanse is that nothing truly catastrophic ever happens. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse - Yeah, That Could Be a Problem.

  

  The Expanse: 4x09 Saeculum.The concept of the "Saeculum" refers to the lifetime of a population - the time that has to pass for a population to completely... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse - We Were Both in Impossible Positions.

  

  The Expanse: 4x08 The One-Eyed Man.Imagine that in an episode where a group of people, who have gone blind, are trapped in a confined space with slugs that... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse - I'll See for the Both of Us.

  

  The Expanse: 4x07 A Shot in the Dark.As far as political catastrophes go, Chrisjen Avasarala is having a terrible time in her election campaign. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse - The Usual State of Nature is Recovering from the Last Disaster

  

  The Expanse - 4x06 Displacement. Previously, from orbit in the Rocinante, Alex and Naomi watched one of the little islands on Ilus blow up like a nuclear... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse - There is a Path.

  

  The Expanse - 4x05 Oppressor.There are many personal and political failings in the episode which will have repercussions beyond belief. Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO