Reviews

Reviews of books, films, TV, documentaries and other media.
Jul 14
Pushing the Envelope

Pushing the Envelope

Apple's Star City probes the darker side of the space race
4 min read
Jul 08
Controlling the Clock

Controlling the Clock

Almost 70 years later, The Trouble with Lichen is right on time.
4 min read
Jun 25
Criminal Neglect

Criminal Neglect

Factory-made killers in the American Northwest.
2 min read
Jun 19
Artifacts of Abandonment

Artifacts of Abandonment

Processing BACKROOMS as boundary object.
3 min read
Apr 05
Landbros and Spinoff Sects

Landbros and Spinoff Sects

America runs on revelation.
2 min read
Aug 13
Bunker Mentality

Bunker Mentality

Sven Holm's spare vision of privilege at the end times.
3 min read
Apr 19
Frozen Light

Frozen Light

What The Golden Hour reveals about nostalgia and time
3 min read
Mar 31
Slash and Burn

Slash and Burn

Victorian Psycho and the aesthetics of controlled madness
3 min read
Dec 24
Nature Finds a Way

Nature Finds a Way

Olga Tokarczuk's slow-burn sanatorium horror and the return of the repressed feminine
3 min read
Oct 06
Always Fighting the Last Insurrection

Always Fighting the Last Insurrection

Why America keeps rehearsing its own collapse
4 min read
Apr 26
Apes on a Treadmill

Apes on a Treadmill

Nuclear War scenarios and the automation of destruction
4 min read
Apr 15
Temple of Shroom

Temple of Shroom

Empire dreams and psychedelic reality in Álvaro Enrigue's new book
4 min read