When a story starts to run against the internal logic of a system that it has set up, the narrative really should be a believable account of the success of the dismantling of that system, or of the failure of Read more…
Author: musehick
Ken Loach shines a light into the hearts and minds of the working class in England. The struggle highlighted here is one with the doublethink system of Job Seeker’s Allowance and Benefits – something familiar with anyone that has lived Read more…
It is a real shame that this series is not continuing. It was interesting to see the opposition of motion versus stillness in this season as an indicator of who was winning. When Kingpin is on top he is calm, Read more…
001. Sorry To Bother You 002. Black Panther 003. A Quiet Place 004. Hereditary 005. Blindspotting 006. Eighth Grade 007. Mandy 008. Blackkklansman 009. Isle Of Dogs 010. The Other Side Of The Wind 011. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs Read more…
There are bits of this movie that I liked more, watching it again, and other bits which really just seem to be Oliver Stone mythologising. I like Doors songs, and I like Morrison’s poetry, but who out there that writes Read more…
I was late to the show with Jim Carrey. The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and Man On The Moon really were the first things of his that I watched and appreciated. The elastic faced comedy movies Read more…
Comedy is often the best way to digest your political news, because the whole thing is structured in such way that you get a laugh at the end. Is the Asian American viewpoint under-represented, or is it just something I Read more…
I feel like there was something about the way the character was acted that wrapped it all up in a neat bundle of white privilege and cultural appropriation. If that were the concept’s problem, why did The Arrow not draw similar fire? Read more…
I was sold on the book from the first image I saw of it. I buy and read pretty much everything Warren Ellis writes, so I would have found it anyway, and I subscribe to his letter, which is an Read more…
I have watched some weird shit. Sometimes there are ideas that you have that don’t need to be communicated to other people. I don’t think I have seen anything that made me feel ill in the quite same way since Read more…