Donald Trump cost me a book deal
Then there was the time Donald Trump cost me a book deal.
The feedback from one of the major publishers came in via my agent. The editor praised the high quality of the prose, the East Asian noir setting, and …
Then there was the time Donald Trump cost me a book deal.
The feedback from one of the major publishers came in via my agent. The editor praised the high quality of the prose, the East Asian noir setting, and …
200 shots fired in my ongoing campaign to have you motherfuckers read one of my stories. Not many have hit: 14, to be precise, new sales*.
Good sales, most of them, to be sure – many professional, six to the …
The varied and rich philosophical strands of Blade Runner 2049 will be analysed and debated for years to come. Already in the world are some top-shelf articles on the use of light in blade runner, the neglect of children…
Part 2 is dedicated to my theories. Part one was a review of the film, part three discusses philosophical themes. Spoilers below, obviously.
Without further ado:
Roy Batty is a Nexus 6. Inception …
Blade Runner should never have had a sequel. It was and is a work of art, self-contained. It bears watching and re-watching. Today, thirty-five years after it was first released, it still feels contemporary, is unarguably prescient. Blade Runner imagined …
I used to say: ‘watching David Lynch is like listening to jazz – it’s not meant to be a logically understood, it’s meant to be experienced.’ I was wrong.
Twin Peaks: the Return is as close a viewer will come …
It’s a question writers ask throughout their careers. While it is one, I suspect, most frequently posed (yelled, sighed) at the beginning, even the best have been known to lament. Richard Flanagan, for example, nearly quit writing to be a …
A staple of noir cinema is the heist gone wrong. Perhaps the best known contemporary example is Reservoir Dogs (1992), in which Tarantino – steeped in and heavily influence by classic noir – depicts the aftermath of a diamond …
Suicide Squad
What a fucking mess. There were apparently two versions of Suicide Squad, the dark original and a funnier reshoot. It shows. This movie doesn’t know what the fuck it is doing.
A full run-down isn’t necessary; it’s been …
The online bubble is making us dumber and meaner. It has become a sociopathic space curated by giant corporations, corruptive of clear thought and the capacity for human empathy.
I can’t quite remember when it happened. How we became so …