Film & TV
This is where film and TV become the front line of modern culture. It’s where story, meaning, and life collide—played out in front of everyone. The references we use, the moments we recognise, the way we see the world—it all runs through here.
When I hear, ‘I do not understand why anyone would watch horror,’ my immediate thought is ‘I can’t imagine a world without the urge to look
Packaging, in the real world, gets us every time. It’s about making something look desirable. Desirable is not always the gauge we can reliably use to measure quality.
Sacrifice and suffering do not create art. There’s this idea that if you put enough suffering into your work a masterpiece will be the result. I think there’s more suffering in the world than there are writers for that to be true.
At the one hour fifteen mark in the film I realised I was watching an exciting car chase and just didn’t care.
They didn’t watch Captain Marvel.
They watched what they thought Captain Marvel was supposed to be.