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• We Are Lady Parts

  

  Stuck in the master’s house with the master’s tools. In the penultimate episode of We Are Lady Parts, it feels like the titular band has finally fulfilled its... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  Non-Fiction: Judith Butler: Antigone's Claim.Caroline Finkel: Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Adam Shatz: The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionar... Read more

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

• Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

  

  The original Pretty Little Liars, based on the books by Sara Shepard, ran from 2010 to 2017. On a recent rewatch, what struck me was that it was so easy to trac... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Can't You Come Back?

  

  yeule | anthem for a seventeen year-old girl. mount kimbie | shipwreck. princ€ss | crying. taroug | jewels i. sonic youth | becuz. yeah yeah yeahs | no no no.... Read more

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

• Saltburn

  

  "I don't think you're a spider, you're a moth. Quiet, harmless, drawn to shiny things, banging up against a window, and begging to get in. Well, you've made you... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: April.

  Non-Fiction: David Hunt: Girt. David Hunt: True Girt. David Hunt: Girt Nation.Thomas Keneally: A Commonwealth of Thieves. The Improbable Birth of Australia.... Read more

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

• Fallout, Or the Least Bad Place to Be After the Apocalypse

  

  Having watched a lot of post-apocalyptic television over the last few years, the thing that keeps popping into my mind again and again is the question of how,... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 15/4/24

  

  Politics: Back at the end of March, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It was passed with 14 votes in... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March

  

  Non-Fiction: Sara Wheeler: Cherry.Leslie Jamison: Splinters.Lyz Lenz: This American Ex-Wife. Fiction: Elizabeth Hand: Waking the Moon.Nick Fuller Googins: The... Read more

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

• Random Mixtape - Only Marks and Only Flaws.

  

  warpaint | bees. gossip | tough. sleater-kinney | six mistakes. laura marling | devil's spoke. burial | boy sent from above. four tet | 31 bloom. jlin feat.... Read more

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

• Drive-Away Dolls

  

  In the 2007 comedy Itty Titty Bitty Committee by Jamie Babbit, a group of feminist activists disappointed by their lack of reach (in a devastating scene, they... Read more

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

• The Zone of Interest

  There are many scenes that will stay with me for a long time in this film. Glazer places cameras in the reconstruction of the house in which Auschwitz commandan... Read more

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

• Reading List: February.

  Non-Fiction: Kyle Chayka: Filterworld. How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Roger Dean Kiser: The White House Boys. An American Tragedy. Gilbert King: Beneath a... Read more

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

• Servant

  

  While thinking about Servant’s fantastic three seasons, I’ve been considering the strangeness of how all three characters Lauren Ambrose has played regularly... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year In Progress

  

  Non-Fiction:Gilbert King: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. Fiction: Andrea Barrett: The Voyage of the... Read more

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

• More Horrors in the Ice

  

  I wouldn’t say that The Last Winter is a particularly great film. I watched it based on a list of recommendations for if you’re enjoying the new season of True... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: January.

  Non-Fiction: Lamya H: Hijab Blues. Gilbert King: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. Fiction: Tana... Read more

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

• Links: 29/1/24

  

  Politics: It feels like the Republican Primary at this stage is a foregone conclusion. After the Iowa caucus, in which Donald Trump managed to get ahead of Ron... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Kaibutsu / Monster

  

  My first encounter with a film by director Kore-eda Hirokazu was at the 2004 Viennale Film Festival, at a screening of Dare mo Shiranai / Nobody Knows. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Sleater-Kinney - Hell (on Little Rope) I pull myself in piecesPull myself apartIt's like looking in a mirrorWith a stranger looking back(Untidy Creature / Say I... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO