ReedWrites

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

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

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

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

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

March 2025

This Seat is Taken

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

Mar 14

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

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

June 2024

Delight in Decline: The Beautiful Decay of the Northern Powerhouse

A love letter to Northwich and the other Northern towns whose real value is left behind in valueless redevelopment agendas.

Jun 12, 2024

January 2023

A Very Dramatic Ending

An unfortunate man meets his untimely demise and two mismatched detectives.

Jan 25, 2023