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• Films of the Year

  It Follows (2015)The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)The Wolfpack (2015)LemonadeCarol (2015)Certain WomenStar Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 31/12/16 Compact Edition

  Politics and Pop Culture: We have to resist: A Longreads interview with Rebecca Solnit. 'Did the Russian government direct a cyber campaign against the U.S. in... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year

  Non-FictionClaudia Rankine: Citizen. An American Lyric.Jesmyn Ward (ed.): The Fire Next Time. A New Generation Speaks About Race.Dave Cullen: Columbine.Rebecca... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - Table of Contents

  Season One: The Original.Chestnut.The Stray. Dissonance Theory.Contrapasso.The Adversary.Trompe L'Oeil.Trace Decay.The Well-Tempered Clavier.The Bicameral Mind. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - Because This World Doesn’t Belong to You.

  

  Westworld: 1x10 The Bicameral Mind.Dolores: They say that great beasts once roamed this world, as big as mountains. Yet all that’s left of them is bone and... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 8/12/16

  Politics: The media normalisation of the Trump regime is already beginning. Welcome to the kleptocracy. This is essential reading: on resistence and... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – Remember.

  

  Westworld: 1x09 The Well-Tempered Clavier.There are three characters here, haunted by memories, trying to piece themselves together but finally ending up in ver... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Fiction: Kate Atkinson: Life After Life. Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley.Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Ground. N.K. Jemisin: The Obelisk... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - Time to Write My Own Fucking Story.

  

  Westworld: 1x08 Trace Decay.In the beginning, the hosts were simple. They had simple emotions, they had a simple life. Arnold loved them, and he taught them to... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – They Don’t Look Like Anything to Me.

  

  Westworld: 1x07 Trompe L'Oeil.If I had a world of my own, nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Tyrant-proofing the White House

  A prosecutor—and by extention, a tyrant president who directs that prosecutor—can harass or target almost anyone, and he can often do so without violating any... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Next Four Years

  It was a divided path, two very divergent options: either a man who had never held political office, who voiced racist views, who was supported (and did not in... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - So This is Me.

  

  Westworld: 1x06 The Adversary.A few weeks before Westworld started, I reread Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life. It’s the story of Ursula, who returns to the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – I Imagined a Story Where I Didn’t Have to Be the Damsel.

  

  Westworld: 1x05 Contrapasso.In Dante’s Inferno, contrapasso refers to a form of punishment that either resembles or contrasts with the sin that landed the poor... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - I Think I Want to Be Free.

  

  Westworld: 1x04 Dissonance Theory.This is a point in this show where it starts to become hard to write reviews without following any of the rabbit holes and... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2016 TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - Someday Soon.

  

  Westworld: 1x03 The Stray.Change. Bernard has given Dolores books to read that all contain a similar theme. Alice in Wonderland, a book about change, about... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October.

  Fiction: Kate Atkinson: When Will There Be Good News. Kate Atkinson: One Good Turn. Tana French: The Trespasser.Gabby Rivera: Juliet Takes A Breath. Kate... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld - All You Do is Make Choices.

  

  Westworld: 1x02 Chestnut.Maeve: This is the new world, and in this world, you can be whoever the fuck you want.What is Westworld for? Two competing theories... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Westworld – I’m Sorry, I’m Not Quite Feeling Like Myself.

  

  Westworld: 1x01 The Original.In the beginning, there is an interrogation of consciousness, an anxious dance around the question of whether Dolores (Evan Rachel... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 24/10/16 Compact Edition

  Politics: What is Islamic State without a territory?The horrifying legacy of CIA torture. More and more women are coming forward to paint a picture of how much... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO