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We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

I mentioned We’re All Going to the World’s Fair in my last post about The Deviant, but I wanted to expand on that. (SPOILERS AHEAD.) World’s Fair is a marvellous low-budget horror film about a teenager who takes part in an online augmented reality game which is

The Deviant

Comics pal and frequent collaborator James Tynion IV recently sent over an advance PDF of his upcoming horror comic The Deviant, created with artist Joshua Hixson and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Since, I’ve come to realise, this blog can be whatever I want it to be, I thought I’d

Going Rogue: A Star Wars Podcast

Some of my nerdier friends don’t like it when I refer to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as “the only good Star War”. It’s mostly a joke, but the fact is – that’s the only Star Wars film I’ve been able to watch more than once,

Illuminations

Alan Moore is one of the three writers I feel have affected me and my writing the most, at least as an adult – the others being Nick Cave and David Milch. For all three, this is partly through their work, and partly through how they think and speak about their

Night Film

(Mild spoilers. But nothing that reveals the plot of the book, I think.) I have a bit of a yen for horror stories centred around films and film-making. I’m not sure what it is, but there is a certain luminosity to film, a magic that I feel is conducive

The Bear

(Contains mild spoilers.) There is a lot I love about FX’s The Bear, the new drama created by Christopher Storer.[1] The dialogue, the camerawork, and the performances are all great, but there were a few things I wanted to note. First, I loved how the show throws you

Dave McKean on AI-Generated Art

Here’s a lovely interview with Dave McKean on Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Show. The context here is that McKean has created a limited edition graphic novel called Prompt, composed entirely of artwork he has created by feeding text prompts into Midjourney, a text-based art generator AI that is