Injustice League
An open plea for Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, Apocalypse, anybody!, to destroy super-hero cinema.
The trouble with WandaVision
Marvel Studios is the greatest ad agency in the world - but here’s the thing.
Fleekonomics
On Normal People, Exciting Times, HBO’s Industry, and ‘adulting’ in the 21st Century.
WesFest Day 2: Rushmore
Rushmore has aged so damn well … that it’s hard to imagine a better Anderson movie.
Ode to DOOM
A tribute, as best I could, to your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper.
Image courtesy of Eric Coleman.
WesFest Day 1: Bottle Rocket
I’m rewatching every Wes Anderson movie ever, even the not-so-Wes-Andersony ones, and delivering feels.
Play it as it Lays
The tunes I played to death and back, in 2020. Tell me what YOU vibed to in the comments!
It’s tip-off day!
The most intriguing storylines in the NBA, I think, as at Opening Night.
Mother Sparker
A (non-fictional) tale of (corporate) Mortal Kombat.
Show me the coast
In HBO’s We Are Who We Are, literally everyone and everything is complicated.
Emma Cline makes fiction look mostly easy
‘Daddy’, a collection about unresolved feelings, always seems to come full circle.
It’s a bird! - it’s a plane! - it’s … a little unremarkable?
The Boys is a refreshing middle finger at super-heroes’ grip on pop culture - but little else.
Bill Murray deserves perfect happiness, and an Academy Award
‘On the Rocks’ is a wine-tasting, and there’s chocolate cake too.
Baseball, You Saved My Life
Again.
Proper Tott’n’m
It feels proper good to see Tottenham Hotspur playing with intent, hunger, and desire again - and (yes) for Jose Mourinho.
The Carcass Caucus
With some persuasion, Bazzi shares a poem. We analyse it like a coupla (ahem) pros.
Derek Cianfrance aims straight for the heart, again
I Know This Much is True isn’t so much ‘must-see TV’ as it is another vital statement from the director on the nature of trauma.
Teddy Wayne’s ‘Loner’ is unsettling and uncomfy, but … that’s about it.
Wayne is a gifted novelist, working scene and mood like components of a stringed instrument … but.
Bielsa, Bielsa
El Loco’s got Leeds United looking armed and dangerous - like they’re bloody well supposed to.
Of Rails & Ollies
HBO’s Betty is the purest small- or big-screen experience you’re going to have this year.
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