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Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸŽ¬

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'The blight seeped into your soul': How Seven reflected fears in the US in the 1980s David Fincher's thriller began with its screenwriter's view of the urban decay and religious conservatism of the Reagan era. But it also predicted our obsession with true crime today.

What’s in the πŸ“¦?

I wrote about the hidden allegory in Se7en for the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

18.11.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I Grew Up on an Apple Orchard. Oh, the Horrors I’ve Seen During You-Pick Season. Oh, the horrors I've seen.

I grew up on an apple orchard in rural Ohio, and most of the people who came to pick apples were lovely. Some weren’t.

Naturally, I wrote about the ones who weren’t.

slate.com/life/2025/09...

16.09.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Johnnie! Good to know I rose above Salieri’s mediocrity. That was the only bar I wanted to clear really

12.06.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Slumming in a vision of hell': Why Requiem for a Dream is still so divisive, 25 years after its release Darren Aronofsky's radical drug-addiction drama was highly acclaimed and angrily slated when it came out in 2000. Today, this Hubert Selby Jr adaptation is no less contentious.

For the BBC, I wrote about the divisive legacy of Requiem for a Dream, 25 years on.

www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

05.06.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŠβ€β™‚οΈ the 4️⃣0️⃣ ft πŸ€

06.05.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 439    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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in my medieval era

05.05.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 498    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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81Β° today πŸ₯΅ and new βœ‚οΈ

24.04.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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The shocking twist of "Dolores Claiborne"? Being a difficult woman isn't a crime New interviews with the "Dolores Claiborne" cast and creators reveal how it subverted a popular '90s trope.

www.salon.com/2025/03/23/d...

23.03.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

30 years ago, a film adaptation of a bestselling Stephen King novel was released, and it featured what was then a genuinely shocking twist: being a bitch isn’t a crime.

I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️

23.03.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Me, Kate, and Bette.

12.03.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 589    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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The afterlife of corpses - The Boston Globe Western cultures once were obsessed with dead bodies. Today we dispose of them with clinical efficiency. Are we missing something important?

Lord Byron. Still mad, badβ€”and dangerous to know.

www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/29/o...

10.03.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Democracy dies in darkness.

We just didn’t know Jeff Bezos would be the one turning off the f-ing lights.

26.02.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can this hellish month be the nail in the coffin of the idea that the billionaire class will β€œsave” usβ€”that, against all evidence, arsonists make the best firefighters?

21.02.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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'An unmistakable stab at the USSR': Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner ever? Released 40 years ago this month, MiloΕ‘ Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point.

AMADEUS at 40.🎻

www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

14.02.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0
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Back to blonde 🌞

12.02.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1029    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 0
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In defense of β€˜The English Patient,’ a masterpiece of anti-imperialism - The Boston Globe First hailed, later mocked, the Oscar-winning epic deserves credit for subverting its own genre.

Seinfeld was wrong. THE ENGLISH PATIENT is a masterpiece.

And you betcha it deserved that Oscar over Fargo.

www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/o...

11.02.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Sunset Boulevard at 70: we’re all Norma Desmond now Sunset Boulevard showed the damage wrought by fame. Seventy years on, popular culture is more obsessed than ever with being seen

Unlike Norma Desmond, SUNSET BOULEVARD hasn’t aged a day

www.theguardian.com/film/2020/au...

06.02.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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post grammys glow

03.02.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 388    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sam and I hit it off

02.02.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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This weekend’s sequence of events

01.02.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just arrived from The Other Placeβ€”looking forward to checking this πŸ†• place out!

31.01.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

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