My Horror Milestones
A long, rambling journey through my personal history with horror as a genre.
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Film
A collection of 35 posts
Thomas Flight on Cinematography
I quite enjoy Thomas Flight’s video essays on cinema. This is a good one focusing on cinematography, and what makes for good cinematography – he narrows it down to four factors:
1. Light
2. Composition
3. Movement
4. Beauty
It’s interesting stuff, and provides a fair few touchstones for
2025 / #12: Wrapping Up
Final newsletter for 2025. It’s December, work is drawing to a close (I’ve got one delivery left, I believe), and many of my friends who stay outside India are in town for the next few weeks, so I think it’s unlikely that I’ll be writing a
2025 / #05: Film Changes
Updates
Decompressed
Links
PIFF
Been a while since the last one of these. They’re not on any kind of schedule this year, so I’m not late, but I like consistency, and it’d be nice to get back to posting these regularly-ish.
For a week or so
January 2025 Round-Up
In January, I read 3 prose books, 1 play, 5 comics, watched 13 movies (including 2 short films), and 2 seasons of television. The dearth of movies and tv are explicable – I have to be out of the house a lot these days, and I refuse to watch anything more
2025 / #02: Lynchian
Updates
New books
Shout-Outs
RIP David Lynch
This week has been a light one at work. I wrapped up the lettering for Resurrection Man #3 and w0rldtr33 #13, but there wasn’t much left to be done on either.
The main project for the week was to begin scripting
Reading & Film Round-Up July-November
I’m doing this, as mentioned in the previous post, to wipe the slate clean for next year, and to have an accurate count of how much I read and watched this year.
To that end, some of these capsule reviews will be just a sentence or two, and some
Fiction and Non-Fiction in Film
In an interview with Anurag Minus Verma (whose podcast is easily the best Indian podcast around, though unfortunately for my non-Indian readers, most of his episodes are not in English), director Shaunak Sen, who made the documentary All That Breathes, talks about fiction and non-fiction in film, and
Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 28: Woo-Woo
This one’s coming to you closer to the weekend, if not quite within it. I count that a victory.
I mentioned last week that I was planning to buy a camera. I finally chose one and booked it on Friday. It’s a rare one, so I have to
Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 27: Second Half of the Year
This is coming later than I’d like, but I was pretty slammed with work Monday and Tuesday. Usually, Monday is my busy day. I strictly avoid working on the weekend, and avoid looking at work emails too, so Monday is when I respond to everyone’s weekend emails. Plus