Film, books & culture
Reviews and riffs: Avatar, Nolan, Dune, The Expanse, Pulp Fiction and the stories we tell.
Nolan’s Odyssey
Osmosis, Odysseus, and Other Casualties. The West, Seen in Stop Motion.
In Search for Maxima
or how not to get stuck on a hill when there is a mountain next to it.
The End of Security
And the Pyramid of Hope
Hostage
A story of an ordinary guy put in an extraordinary situation.
The Forever War
A Prophecy for Our Times
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
The Unreview
2025
A Review
Avatar Fire and Ash
A movie review (No Spoilers)
The Inner Place
Where the Observer is the Observed and How to become an Alchemist.
The Story of Reality
It’s Sunny Outside Apparently…
Superman 2025
A Movie Review
A Loss for Words
Scrubbing of Our Memories
Easy Pickings
Mimetic Desire: What We Want and How it Makes Humanity
Spell Breaker
The Mantra of Atoms to Chimps to Man-God
The Expanse
Where Universes are Created
Unmoored at Sea
Event Horizon
Pulp Fiction
It takes a genius (with heart) to take a simple trope and make it riveting.
The Maze
A Rat Story
The Province of Quacks
Kissing Women and The Master of Illusions
Brand
Scooby-Doo Politics & Selective Justice
1 + 1 = Hercules?
Lessons from the Beach
Rat in the Kitchen
What am I Gonna do?
The Diary of a CEO
An Interview with Russell Brand
From Charm to Riches
A Bottling Story
From Fish to Destroyer
Myths, Models and Games
You decide…
Bad Actors, Policy and DemystifySci
The Book Scout and His Mystical Kingdom
On Spotting a Winner and A New Experiment
Mad Hatter or Hammer
Panoptic Vision Or When Everything Looks Like Nail
Emily Dune
From Rural England to Arakis
Real Illusions
On the Fictionality of Vikid and Life in General.
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Second Coming
Ariel Pink
A Deep Dive into the Reality of Cancel Culture
The Many Faces of Vikid
On Building Genuine Character and a Heavenly Meeting with God and Drake.
The Alien
An Otherworldly Encounter
Tatey Tate, Whitty Titty
A Self Appointed Hero and Fellow Doom Warrior
SocDis-16
A True Story of The Novel Societal Disease
Hero, Repitle, Savior, Grifter
One Screen, Many Movies
Ebony and Ivory
A Story of Truth and Bullshit
The Lands Less Travelled
Making Friends with Kim
You Can't Hurt Me
Getting Goggined
Hemispheric
On Iain McGilchrist
Transcendent Space
What Cannot be Said or Done
The Throne
Political Awakening in a Drunk World
The Beatles Were Shit
About the Deezer Geezers
The Vikid Principles
Where there's Only One Principle and We Live on the Edge.
On Becoming a Hero
The path from Ordinary to Extraordinary