The Pusher movies are all about maturity, what we do to escape it and what happens when it catches up to us anyway. This is a life no one escapes until they do, and that includes writer and director Nicholas Winding Refn. The original Pusher was expanded from a short movie and served as his
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Rush built the Croft’s network to be the exact
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
There’s a panel early on in Bad Luck Chuck which is about as close to perfect comics as you can get. It’s this: As character sketches go you don’t get any better. Chuck is a bad luck magnet. Chuck is a broken mirror with an hourly rate. Hire Chuck and the fix isn’t just in,
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer is a film that haunts you from
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 22nd February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. The cloud is now the Moon. Project Moonframe turned
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 15th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cAsmQS610] When I was 15 or so I
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. At some point in the next couple of years,
The Best There Is At What She Does
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 1st February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Robin Sloan is responsible for two of my all-time favorite
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 25th January 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Tonia Thompson’s Nightlight focuses on horror stories written and narrated by
Kristyna Baczynski is one of the most prolific, and unique, artists working in the U.K. indie comics scene. Her work is vibrant, witty, unlike anything else around and essential. She also does an occasional and hilarious podcast with Greig Johnson that is one part space drama, one part de-clluttering and one part pop culture discussion. I’m a big
