On Jordan Peterson's terror, the poetry of religion, and whether a believer must believe in a god. 1. When we find ourselves lost, in...

On Martin Scorsese, what is and isn't Cinema, and when a bad movie is "good bad" or simply bad. 1. Like a mummy monster in a movie from...

On the active pursuit of "knowledge and excellence", and how the road to Hell is never hard to find. 1. It’s a commonly proscribed trope...

Directors aren't the only ones who get to edit films the way they want; each of us gets to create our preferred versions too... 1. Here’s...

How Isherwood's masterpiece shows up the hollowness of modern, reductive views of what makes us human. 1. It is a truth universally...

The many ways to approach books, movies, and music. 1. I’ve always liked the phrase “an embarrassment of riches”. It has the same strange...