Jonty Cornford

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff

Superman, Fantastic Four and the New Sincerity So apparently Superman is woke now? Let’s put aside for one moment the obvious fallacy in the very use of “woke,” usually by conservative white people

I wrote some words about some recent superhero movies for @insightsmag.bsky.social - you can read the article here:

www.insights.uca.org.au/superman-fan...

Watching Scorsese’s The Color of Money (1986) and I can’t believe just how little chemistry there is between Tom Cruise and the great Paul Newman.

I’m rewatching the Harry Potter films this Christmas season, and I’d forgotten how great the sets are in those first two. The grotty sewer system leading to the Chamber of Secrets is a real treat. Something that is lost in the more CGI-laden later films.

The Art of Anti-War It is increasingly apparent that we are living amidst tense times. The recent result of the US election was, depending who you ask, either a step towards peace

“When war is used to entertain, there is great value in choosing instead to cherish the art of anti-war.”

www.insights.uca.org.au/the-art-of-a...

INCENDIES (2010) blew me away. While I am completely on board with the science fiction run Villeneuve is in the middle of, part of me is also hoping he returns to the style of filmmaking that defined his earlier work.

YouTube video by Filthy Hope Studios Christianity used to be PUNK | #filthyhopepod ep. 129 🎧

Someone this week told me it was heretical to equate the gospel to punk, which ironically only deepened my conviction. Faith is punk as hell.

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