This piece is about the films Dungeons & Dragons and Clue. There will be spoilers ahead. Board games occupy a weird space in the modern media landscape. A casual Google estimates that board games sales topped $13 billion globally in 2020, with $223 million of that on Kickstarter alone. Despite…

This piece is about the films The Fast and the Furious & Crash. There will be spoilers ahead. Cars are a contradiction on wheels. They’re heavy yet fast. This makes them potentially exciting but mostly just mundane. You can’t watch a movie while you drive, at least not if you…

This piece is about the films Train To Busan & Snowpiercer. There will be spoilers ahead. The golden age of trains has been and gone. Perhaps the romance of Murder on the Orient Express was true for some, but for most people my money’s on it always embodying peak mundanity. …

Life is pretty boring. On the whole, this suits me just fine because I don’t to be surprised when I order a meal, or step out of my house. I mostly want things to go as precisely to plan as possible. …

Alien vs Predator. King Kong vs Godzilla. Freddy vs Jason. Cinema is built on the backs of titans clashing. Today pig and shark go head to head in Babe vs Jaws. Not literally, but in a figurative cage match of Hollywood’s most memorable animal stars. Babe (1995); directed by Chris…

A Festive Parody Every person in England Liked Christmas a lot. But ol’ Boris who lived in Downing Street did not! ~ Boris hated Christmas! The whole festive season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. ~ It could be, perhaps, That his suit was too…

PART 1: THE PROBLEM WITH INSTAGRAM I spend a lot of time on Instagram. Helpfully, the ‘Your Activity’ feature tells me precisely how much. However… when I went to check I ended up losing twenty minutes to the infinite scroll. …

The following is a short story in the form of emails between two people in a fictional UK government department that deals with ethical accounting. From: A.Barker@DEEM.gov.uk To: G.Law@DEEM.gov.uk Subject: RE: Welcome to the team Date: 01/01/20 Dear Mr. Lau, Greetings from the Department of Her Majesty’s Exchequer of Ethics…

What will be your lockdown legacy? Apparently you need one. Why? Don’t ask, you just do. Maybe it’s your low-key motivation to cook, garden, or post every day on the ‘gram. Maybe you’ve got the self-control to work on a novel instead of bingeing Netflix again. …