RPGs… Where Culture Meets the Tabletop, Part 3: David Lynch and Narrative Ambiguity 24 Jul 202615 Jul 2026 It's Friday! Usually, we'd be jumping into 5 on Friday, but as I'm travelling just now, and those posts are a pain to format on the phone, here's something a…
Film… Movie Review: The Great Flood 12 Jul 20269 Jul 2026 The Great Flood is a film that, after the initial watch, leaves you a little hollowed out... but in a good way? I loved it, but it wasn’t a comfortable…
Film… Movie Review: Repo! The Genetic Opera 6 Jun 20265 Jun 2026 If someone told you before 2008 that the director of Saw II, III, and IV was going to make a futuristic, dystopian cyberpunk rock opera starring Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman,…
Pop Culture… TV Review: The Capture, Season 2 16 May 202615 May 2026 Ben Chanan’s The Capture returned recently for a third season. I really enjoyed season 1 of this show, so I thought I'd better watch season 2 before digging into the…
Tabletop Games Where Culture Meets the Tabletop, Part 2: The Photography of Gregory Crewsdon 26 Apr 202619 Apr 2026 Tabletop gaming does not and should not sit in a vacuum. It absorbs whatever the wider culture is generating, whether that might be aesthetics, moods, creative instincts… whatever. We should…
Pop Culture… Where Culture Meets the Tabletop, Part 1: The Music and Artistry of Sofia Isella 14 Apr 2026 Tabletop gaming does not and should not sit in a vacuum. It absorbs whatever the wider culture is generating, whether that might be aesthetics, moods, creative instincts... whatever. We should…
Film… Movie Review: Frankenstein 12 Apr 20268 Apr 2026 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has haunted literature and cinema for two centuries, but Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 adaptation feels like a definitive statement. This is no stitched‑together monster movie. It’s a…
Film… Movie Review: Thunderbolts 14 Mar 20266 Mar 2026 Going into Thunderbolts, I’ll admit my expectations were modest. Marvel’s recent outings have felt uneven, and the idea of a team cobbled together from antiheroes and misfits seemed more like…
Film… Movie Review: Fantastic 4: First Steps 15 Feb 2026 Marvel’s long-awaited reboot of its “First Family” arrives with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, a film drenched in retro-futuristic 1960s aesthetic. Director Matt Shakman leans hard into the period design;…
Film… Movie Review: Sinners 14 Feb 20266 Feb 2026 Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is the kind of film that reminds you why cinema matters. Set in the Deep South of the 1930s, it’s a lavishly serious vampire blowout that doubles…
Blogging… When Did Not Liking Something Stop Being Enough? 25 Jan 20268 Jul 2026 There was a time when not liking something was just… ordinary. You’d watch a show, read a book, try a game, shrug, and move on. It didn’t require a statement…
Film… Movie Review: Megalopolis 24 Jan 202623 Jan 2026 Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis arrives with decades of anticipation behind it, a passion project finally brought to life. It’s a film that aims for grandeur, blending philosophy, spectacle, and operatic…
