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"The Midnight Club": Perfection as the enemy of the Good

On Mike Flanagan's new series and the nihilism of insisting people are perfect as they are. In Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix offering,...

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Reader

"The Grand Budapest Hotel": On Remembering Lost Worlds

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Dying To Be Heard: From Nietzsche to The Office

On the differences and the surprising similarities between David Brent and Nietzsche. A man, at the end of the day and perhaps – as he so...

Letting Go Of Myself: Religion without belief

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...

That's Not Cinema: The good, the "good bad", and the awful

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...

Act, and Profit By It: The virtues of action in Dante's "Inferno"

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...

The Audience Cut: In praise of flawed films

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...

"A Single Man": Why people are more than they seem

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

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