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Seven cinematic deep cuts you might like (opens the original)
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A while back I set myself a little challenge: to stop watching American churn-movies like Uncharted and The Fall Guy until I’d watched ten non-US productions. For some of you cineastes who pre-book every Mia Hansen-Løve film the day it’s announced, that will sound unremarkable; for others, it will sound unbearably pretentious, I’m sure. But I enjoyed it a lot. I did it to introduce some fibre to my diet, you know? A bit of formal experimentation, some foreign-language mid-budget stuff
Victorian Patricide and Fairy Queens (opens the original)
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On my way to an East London wedding this weekend (my fourth of six this year, plus two stags and a mixed hen; welcome to your early 30s), I split the long Tube journey in two with a trip to the Royal Academy. I’ve written about my History of Art degree in the past, but I don’t get to as many exhibitions in London as I would like to; nonetheless, art history is a weird little academic subculture to which I still feel a sense of belonging, even if loosely
The most dangerous men in heavy metal are now middle-aged (opens the original)
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I first published this long piece back in June 2024. I had a grand total of 59 subscribers back then; not even enough to fill a Routemaster bus. As such, very few people read it, but it was a lot of fun to research and write. There’s a lot here, from Satanism to TTRPGs to Norwegian local elections. If you listen to black metal, a good chunk of the scene lore in the first two sections will be familiar, but looking at the demographics of my readership and some of the pieces that have delivered me
Some anxieties about The Odyssey (opens the original)
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Well, it finally happened. Argentina took time out of crying about the Falklands, singing racist songs and throwing leftists out of helicopters to put England out of the World Cup last night, and I need something to take my mind off it.1I was worried about the stakes of that game
How Italian football clubs embraced high fashion (opens the original)
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Tonight, England might very well be knocked out of the World Cup by a Norwegian team I’ve been afraid of since they qualified. Look past Grendel Erling Haaland, and there are still a lot of other players capable of grinding your bones to make their bread giving even the best teams in the tournament a scare. Given I might be feeling less charitable towards the Norwegians tomorrow morning, I want to take a moment to acknowledge how their simple, flag-inspired kit has been one of the breakout stars
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