Category: Arts & Entertainment

One Thing I Love About Paddington 2
The most remarkable thing about Paddington 2 might be its casting

One Thing I Love About Paddington
The first Paddington is a perfect example of the difference between a family comedy and a kids’ movie

Literacy 2025: Book 13: Bloom
Delilah S. Dawson’s romantic horror novella about a woman who finds exciting new love at a farmer’s market

Literacy 2025: Book 12: The Watchers
AM Shine’s suspense thriller about strangers trapped inside a strange bunker in the middle of a dark forest

The Future: Beef
I finally watched Phantom of the Paradise, and it prompted me to re-evaluate my snobbery and how I think of movies

One Thing I Kind of Like About Death of a Unicorn
Death of a Unicorn reminded me of the 1980s, in that it’s the kind of movie they hardly ever make anymore

Literacy 2025: Book 11: Wylding Hall
Elizabeth Hand’s folk horror novel about the making of an early 1970s album in a remote, ancient manor house

Literacy 2025: Book 10: Enter a Murderer
My second attempt at making sense of a Ngaio Marsh murder mystery

Two Things I Love About Nosferatu
Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu strips away all the subtlety and subtext from vampire stories, and then adds a little back. Spoilers.











