Five-minute call Gotcha, thanks. You look great. I look like a fool. Why the hell am I wearing this stupid thing? The costume played really well in focus groups. The colours really stick out. Makes you look identifiable. Could I not have had a say in it? You came to…

‘It’s his passion,’ said Tom. Tom and I had taken a stroll along the coast after lunch that day in January. The sky matched the roaring sea in its white-grey livery. When I licked my lips, I tasted salt. I was staying at Tom’s house over Christmas and New Year…

What the Edgelords and finger-wagging Boomers get wrong — “Millennial Nihilism” is a phrase used a lot online, often used in bad faith but equally I do see why the philosophy of Nihilism might be attractive at the moment given how hopeless the future looks judging by any of the myriad horrors befalling the globe today. As such a…

What’s with all the Time Loops? — What’s with all the time loops? Whether it’s Deathloop, 12 Minutes, The Forgotten City, Lemnis Gate or Hades the genre of entertainment revolving around loops or time loops is all the rage lately. This ‘recursive genre’ lends itself to the video game format because the point of contemporary video games…

Not just a math rock band. — In an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast, actress Julia Fox, was asked if she was a muse and what a muse is. Her response was that she considered herself to be the writer/director Josh Safdie’s muse for the film Uncut Gems. The internet, instead of picking up on…

No. — I see this phrase a lot. Sometimes above or below some wince inducing spectacle of a boy, man or men making a prat of themselves, as we are all wont to do from time to time. But most often it’s a caption for a video of what is often a…

Class Dismissed — The Gentlemen appeared on Netflix recently and after the, frankly dreadful, King Arthur & Aladdin, it seemed like Guy Ritchie was returning to his Lock, Stock and Snatch roots with another fun gangster caper, so I fancied a look. Sure enough it is a classic Ritchie gangster caper complete with…

The disruption between creator and consumer. — In 2012 the final video game of the Mass Effect trilogy was released to widespread outrage from fans of the franchise. As the finale of an epic sci-fi opera its ending was deemed insufficient by its player base. Criticisms and outright bile was poured, not just on the game itself…