Category: Personal

It’s about time to pick up my daughter from nursery, but I’m not going to. In my defence, she’s on an outing, so she’s not there to pick up, but…

God be praised, as of Feb 1st, we in the UK can stream the whole of the Studio Ghibli catalogue (apart from Grave of the Fireflies, for some reason) via…

I have my hands on the first media for The Women Who Built Glasgow City today: a documentary for BBC Alba. Producer-director, Margot McCuaig dropped off a drive with the…

I just finished Jaron Lanier’s book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, and I found it so convincing, that I deleted my Twitter accounts immediately. Everyone…

I don’t know what in the hell is really happening in Mulholland Drive. Maybe nothing is. Screenwriting manuals would lead us to believe that what it does is invalid, that…

Great, isn’t she? You wouldn’t dare suggest that she doesn’t deserve it, doesn’t own it. And thank God, because as a white cis-male I’m getting pretty sick of all the…

Previous instalments: Intro Mad Max Mad Max 2 Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Holy fuck. I’m really, really mad at myself: if I’d been up to speed with the three others…

Previous instalments: Intro Mad Max Mad Max 2 If Road Warior is the series’ Wrath of Khan, Beyond Thunderdome is its Search for Spock: pretty good, with some inspired moments…

Previous instalments: Intro Mad Max This is the one I’d seen, back when Alex Cox introduced it for Moviedrome. I remember enjoying it, but it’s action was much curtailed by…

Previous instalments: Intro I think I was put off the first Mad Max because it seemed a bit too nasty for me. I was worried I’d be scared, frankly, when…