Blogging seriously about films and other things
Films of 2020 (and 2019)
I did not do a Films of the Year of 2019. At the time, I thought that it would involve some distasteful self-promotion, by which I mean that at times I think that to blog at all is mere self-promotion, as well as possibly a masturbatory practice in that no one cares to know my…
White Supremacist Cinema: Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, USA, 2019)
This post will segue from a discussion of Booksmart to a discussion of issues relating to the Karen meme. The link might not for some readers be fully concrete, but in a week when Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake 7 times, and in which Kyle Rittenhouse killed two protestors and seriously injured one more in Kenosha,…
Notes from the London Kurdish Film Festival 2020
Over the past two weeks or so, it has been a huge honour and a great pleasure to act as a member of the jury for the 2020 London Kurdish Film Festival (as well as to do a workshop/’masterclass’ on no-budget filmmaking with them). I was lucky enough to catch 30 short films during the…
White Supremacist Cinema: The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie, UK/USA, 2019)
Perhaps the biggest problem with racism in the UK is the UK’s belief that it does not have one. The ‘it’ from the previous sentence should be defined as pertaining most specifically to the UK’s white population, perhaps especially those white citizens who identify solely as British nationals. And yet, when we watch a film…
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