True Crime: Streets Of LA and the Art of Following the Leader
Some works can be considered pioneers, inventing – or at least popularising and codifying –…
Tristan "Drunk Napoleon" Nankervis
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Taco Break: The Knocked Out Loaded Part
Everybody makes mistakes. The most notoriously disliked section of The Shield outside of a certain…
The Sick Baby
There are two screenwriting techniques that have passed into legend at this point: Save The…
Sunset Boulevard (Year Of The Month)
I went into this movie knowing that its protagonist (to which our narrator is an…
Film On The Internet: American Psycho
This movie is, famously, about the emptiness, excess, and shallow materialism of 80’s yuppie culture,…
In Defence Of Birdman
SPOILERS ahead. Underdog is a relative term. On paper, Riggan Thomson, protagonist of Birdman or…
The Solute Canon: Drunk Napoleon on Paterson
Biopics about creative people have a cliche scene in which we see the moment when…
Five Always Sunny Lines I End Up Thinking A Lot
“Whose face are we shoving this musical in?” “You don’t shove a musical in someone’s…
Chicago Whatever
The Chicago TV franchise feels like a pale imitation of the things I write, which…
Kill Bill VS Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
SPOILERS for Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood ahead. These are, perhaps, the two most…