I’m an experienced digital content creator with almost a decade’s experience in podcasting and online film writing, and an…
And in Jennifer Aniston’s Alex Levy character, a female antihero to join the pantheon of TV’s Difficult Men… not to mention Howard Beale from Network.
As a network, Apple TV+ seem dangerously hands-off with their most A-list programming. Almost every show they have launched has either disappeared into the vacuum of modern pop culture or off the rains just as it was gaining steam. It really feels sometimes like nobody is in control of this…
It’s a damn shame that I can’t for the life of me write coherently about modern music, because I probably had stronger feelings about the albums I listened to this year than most of the film or TV I watched. …
Every few years it feels like Sir Ridley Scott is at risk of becoming Hollywood’s definitive journeyman director, leaping from one generic prestige project to another, getting the odd Oscar nomination and building one of the more impressive octogenarian directorial careers in recent memory. But then, like magic, the 83-year…
You’d have to live under a cavernous metaphorical rock to miss the fact that HBO’s Succession returns tomorrow night after exactly two years off air. Either a rock, or inside a cultural vacuum I do not understand. Succession hype is everywhere, and dominating everything. Most importantly, I can feel it…
Absolutely no series of films, certainly none that are 25 films and almost 60 years deep, feels as plug and play as James Bond. The girl, the car, the generically European villain, the beer, the watch, the song: the 007 Industrial Complex is a pillar of Brit masculinity, classicalism and…
In a blockbuster ecosystem where studio mandate has final cut and control freak super-producers can seize the editing suite from a filmmaker on a moment’s notice, one last soggy way for company men directors of tentpole blockbusters to assert control while on the marketing stump for their work has emerged…
