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• Book Club – Otherlands
  Book club reconvenes as Charlie shares a run down on Thomas Halliday’s blockbuster history tour Otherlands.
• Sturgeon departs. What now?
  When news broke yesterday morning that Nicola Sturgeon was tending her resignation as First Minister, most in Scotland were caught off guard. This didn’t arrive after some great scandal – though the political heat had certainly risen in recent months – but was rather hastened by Sturgeon’s inner sense thatContinue reading “Sturgeon departs. What now?”
• Movie Mondays: Aftersun
  Few movies do so much with so little as Aftersun. In the modern age of filmmaking where projects like Avatar 2 can cost a quarter of a billion dollars to make Aftersun is very much on the other end of the spectrum, relying on two excellent performances and an amazinglyContinue reading “Movie Mondays: Aftersun”
• Top 25 Albums of 2022
  2022 has been a whirlwind of a year – the first full year post-covid without any covid lockdowns, and the closest we have come to normal for some time. There has been no shortage of year-defining events that have made headlines and caused sensation, but similarly no shortage of greatContinue reading “Top 25 Albums of 2022”
• Movie Mondays – TraumaZone
  There’s a prevailing trend in documentary making these days where the narrator becomes part of the story in a fusion of self-promotion and naked bias. Personally, I blame Super Size Me (2004). I feel a hot take brewing, but while that’s still on the boil it’s a return to inertia’sContinue reading “Movie Mondays – TraumaZone”