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Thumbsucker at 20 | The sadboy's Dark Knight?

A reflection on Mike Mills' debut feature, including an exploration of how a finished Elliot Smith soundtrack could have cemented the film's position as…

Dec 17, 2025

The Commodification of Rebellion

You cannot blue sky your way to scandal. You cannot focus group outrage. Rebellion is instinctive, it is not curated.

Dec 12, 2025

October 2025

AI Isn't Killing Creativity, We Already Did

If we want to start blaming someone for killing creativity, we should probably start off with a period of introspection.

Oct 27, 2025

Satire isn't dead, it's just had a facelift

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another manages to ridicule the already ridiculous and do so with such relentless, aggressive scope.

Oct 15, 2025

How The Wolf of Wall Street became a blueprint for the people it set out to parody

It's time to get your head out of the sand/bag of cocaine and acknowledge that this wasn't meant to be something to aspire to.

Oct 5, 2025

August 2025

For the first time in years, I made a film

Reflections on the joys of sharing a product with an audience again, creating for the sake of creating, and how David Lynch's death helped me to…

Aug 22, 2025

Materialists | Film Review

Celine Songs balances the theatrical and the real, the mainstream and arthouse, the glamour and the ruggedness in her follow-up to Past Lives.

Aug 15, 2025

March 2025

This Seat is Taken

A short story based on a picture of a chair in Portugal.

Mar 14, 2025

January 2025

Murakami Made Me Do It; or, How I Started Running Properly

The blog where I pretend that I finally have it all figured out.

Jan 18, 2025

August 2024

Dad Made Me Do It; or, How I Started Running Further

Beers, a drunken challenge, and motivation from my old man. A chronicle of how I went from the pub to running my first marathon.

Aug 28, 2024

Drink Made Me Do It; or, How I Started Running

How booze, indie music, and a bet formed the perfect recipe to discover a love of running.

Aug 2, 2024

July 2024

Lose Yourself: An egotist's reflections on 'enlightenment' in the modern age

Musings on ideas around self-improvement and self-actualisation.

Jul 25, 2024