Abroad
They say the most stressful experiences are as follows:
Moving countries has a lot of 3 and 5 in it, plus saying goodbye to friends. I’ve just moved …
I saw a bunch of movies, read around fifty books, and found time to watch a few different TV series this year. I’ve collated the best of that I can remember – and presumably sticking in the mind is one …
Let me make one thing clear before this rant begins: Starkiller Base looks amazing. The First Order standing out there on the plain, fucking space Nazis – that was a great shot. The Force Awakens, too, is a welcome …
Australian editor, writer, and reviewer David McDonald is running a series on his blog called ‘Paying for Our Passion’. The issue is a salient one: the sacrifices authors make in the current economic in order to be able to write. …
I assumed The Paris Review, a literary publication I’ve only ever been dimly aware of, was too high-brow for genre. Man, was I wrong. They’ve published wide-ranging interviews with the likes of Sam Delany, Ursula Le Guin, David Mitchell, and …
We live in a world as hyper-capitalist as any point in history, with inequality approaching the extremes of Dickensian England circa 1850. Yet, consumers increasingly expect music, films and books to come free.
This is the problem faced by writers: …
“It’s fun for the children,” they tell me. “Harmless,” they say. “It gets the kids outside – don’t be such a killjoy,” they implore.
So if my opposition to Halloween makes me the Scrooge of that festival, then so be …
You need to re-watch Mad Max: Fury Road. Stop asking questions and do it. That’s the short version of this article.
The long version: while Mad Max: Fury Road does suffer in the transition from big to small screen – …
This article was published last year, but due to its enduring popularity I’ve moved it to the front page for those of you who haven’t seen it yet.
Blade Runner is one of the most visually haunting and memorable movies …
When we develop Artificial Intelligence, our philosophical DNA will be embedded in our creation. This is one of the fascinating arguments of the movie Ex Machina: that the values of the creator are imprinted on the new being (an …
