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• 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

• Random Mixtape - You Only Hold Yourself to the Things You Do.

  

  caribou | broke my heart. two shell | come to terms. floating points | key103. mabe fratti | kravitz. laura marling | devil's resting place. kim deal | coast.... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 10/12/24

  

  Politics:After 13 years of civil war, Bashar al-Assad's reign over Syria collapsed this week after the rapid advance of rebel forces over less than two weeks,... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Non-Fiction: Valerie Bauerlein: The Devil At This Elbow. Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty.Hallie Rubenhold: The Five: The Untold Lives of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  "White supremacists are angry; those who claim that title and those who do not but who act in the interests of white supremacy. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October.

  Non-Fiction: Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Message.Gary J. Bass: Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia. Fiction: Rivers Solomon: Model... Read more

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

• Horror Wednesday: Civil War

  

  Does Civil War count as a horror film? I was going to write about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (for which Demi Moore certainly deserves all the laurels),... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Horror Wednesday: Les Chambres Rouges

  

  In Alfred Tennyson’s 19th century lyrical ballad “The Lady of Shalott”, Elaine of Astolat lives in a tower near the legendary castle and court of King Arthur. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Horror Wednesday: Cuckoo

  

  Watching Cuckoo as someone who grew up one country away from the Bavarian Alpine village this film is set in (and used to holiday in places that look pretty... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Some (un)collected Thoughts on Industry

  

  I spent the last month catching up with Industry, just in time to watch the final episodes of the third season as they came out. I've been ambivalent about the... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September.

  Fiction: Keanu Reeves and China Miéville: The Book of Elsewhere.Kate Atkinson: Death at the Sign of the Rook. Rachel Kushner: Creation Lake.Åsa Avdic: The... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - What Else Could Take Shape?

  

  palehound | the clutch. frances quinlan | another season. beth gibbons | reaching out. ale hop laura robles | el fenómeno de la niña. peggy gou | your art.... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Fiction: Nazlı Koca: The Applicant.Ed O'Loughlin: Minds of Winter. Dominique Fortier: On the Proper Use of Stars.Mordecai Richler: Solomon Gursky Was Here.... Read more

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

• Endless Cycles of Adaptation

  In the late 2000s, my mother was relearning how to speak after a brain haemorrhage. I had just moved back home to help with her care, and we spent a lot of... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Janet Planet

  

  Watching Annie Baker’s Janet Planet, I was thinking about all the other films I’ve watched recently that rely on the perspective of children to tell their... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO