Readings

The director of Love & Friendship on Jane Austen, his failed career as a writer, and true crime television.

How can something as trivial as one's hygiene rituals have such an impact on how happy or successful others perceive you to be?

The author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl on self image, how music and dance inform her writing, and emotional honesty. 

The third wave of B-movies—straight-to-streaming films made cheaper, faster, dirtier than ever—exist to pad streaming and on-demand services’ libraries. 

Chess devoured my life, until I was sweating in a suit at the Bangkok Chess Tournament feeling myself slip into the void. 

Talking with the director of High-Rise about the challenges of adapting J.G. Ballard, the benefits of setting a film in the Seventies, and how genre can give and take away.

The host of the film podcast You Must Remember This on Howard Hughes, A Star is Born, and capitalism.

The legendary war correspondent found domesticity and adventure are not easily balanced.

Enjoying a masterpiece of obviousness and dark satire of patriarchy.