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• Showing Up

  

  Watching Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, and Michelle Williams’ Lizzy attempting to fit her art into a routine that kept being interrupted by the minutiae of life... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Natten Har Øjne / Attachment

  

  I think it is fitting that a film in which nothing is at it seems, a horror film, is for at least half of its run-time more accurately a very cute and moving... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Blue Jean

  

  Set in Newcastle in 1988, Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean is an extraordinary film. It centres on the titular Jean (an outstanding Rosy McEwen), a gym teacher, who... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  Non-Fiction: Richard Parry: Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition.R/B Mertz: Burning Butch. A Memoir.Fiction: Liv... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - The Wilderness Chose.

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x09 Storytelling.Shauna: IT was just us. Lottie: Is there a difference?This whole season of Yellowjackets has been about the question of... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - They’ve Changed Because of Her.

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x08 It Chooses.Lottie: And now we have to give it what it wants.Does a hunt that has no violence feed anyone?Lottie, after Shauna’s beating,... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - I Think It’s Time We Woke Up.

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x07 Burial.Burial is as close to a light-hearted episode of Yellowjackets we’ll ever get, and it still features some of the grimmest bits this... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - It Was a Part of Us.

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x06 Qui.Natalie: We did so much fucked up shit out there. Maybe it was to survive but I don’t think we deserved to.Lottie: The power of that... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Dead Ringers

  

  It doesn’t take long to realise that Dead Ringers is one of the best self-contained seasons of television in a long time. It is, even in its hardest to watch... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: April.

  Non-Fiction: Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock.David Grann: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.Andrea Pitzer:... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – We Can’t Wait to Meet Him.

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x05 Two Truths and a Lie.How do you survive for more than a year in the wilderness? Survive, not just in the sense of food and shelter – survive... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – Can This Just Be Enough?

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x04 Old Wounds.Van: I don’t understand why you won’t see what’s right in front of you. In Old Wounds, I changed my mind about Lottie. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – We All Did It, Together.

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x03 Digestif.Can’t stop what’s comingCan’t stop what’s on its wayTori Amos | Bells for HerThis whole episode is about the fallout of Edible... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - That’s Not What You’re Hungry For.

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x02 Edible Complex.Shauna: I’ll never have another friend like you. I don’t even know where you end and I begin. I’m sorry, and I love you. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Lucy Dacus - Night Shift (on Historian)You got a 9 to 5, so I'll take the night shiftAnd I'll never see you again if I can help itIn five years I hope the... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March.

  Non-Fiction:Michael Wallis: The Best Land Under Heaven. The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny.Ly Tran: House of Sticks. A Memoir.Fiction: Rebecca... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - I’m Never Going to Be Scared of You.

  

  Yellowjackets: 2x01 Friends, Romans, Countrymen.Down beneath the ashes and the stoneSure of what I've lived and have knownI see you so uncomfortably aloneI... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – Let the Darkness Set Us Free.

  

  Yellowjackets: 1x10 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.Ally, the girl who never made it on the plane yet has built an entire personality on her almost-miss, gives a... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – You Took Something That Doesn’t Belong to You.

  

  Yellowjackets: 1x09 Doomcoming.Jackie: Coming up on the end of the world, Shipman. Time to put out all the stops.It is miraculous to consider that in spite of... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - Please. Just Show Me a Sign.

  

  Yellowjackets: 1x08 Flight of the Bumblebee.Do you ever think about what our lives would have been like if it didn’t happen?One of the questions hovering in... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO