july/aug/sept movie watching round up
what I was watching in July, August, September 2025
Tag: cinema
june movie round up
what I was watching in May 2025
may movie round up
what I was watching in May 2025
april movie round up
what I was watching in April 2025
James Bond 007: COLD by John Gardner
an awful book anyone should be ashamed to have read
january movie round up
the movies I watched in January
The Beauty Queen of Leenane & Other Plays by Martin McDonagh
three great plays from the younger brother of the guy who wrote and directed The Guard
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
a (perhaps accidental) anti-gossip tract
Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: Black Panther by various
are superheroes for superzeroes?
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Books About Cinema, Books About Film
books on film (to the tune of ‘Girls On Film’)
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
a fun book but not a real one, y’know
The Proust Screenplay by Harold Pinter
to adapt is not to survive
the cléo reader: 2013-2019
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
Birthday Post: 6,500 Words on Skyfall
It’s my birthday and I’ll write 6,500 words on Skyfall if I want to
Zona by Geoff Dyer
I’m on a flight, heading eastwards for 36 hours in Bucharest[1]. Flying out of Luton at 10pm on a MondayContinue Reading
On The Films of B.S. Johnson, mainly Fat Man On A Beach
I don’t feel – because I’m not – qualified to term my analysis of this collection of BS Johnson’s shortContinue Reading
On Daniel Craig as James Bond on Roofs
I was up a tower in Siena this afternoon and was gifted this beautiful view of the red-tiled roofs ofContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 