With many of these movies, watching them twice is really the best way to experience them. The first viewing is about getting a sense of their rhythm. The second one is to experience it fully, with a sense of their structure that gives us a way to explore further and have more fun with it.

Viral videos were already big at the time, but not as massive as they became just a few years later, so the idea felt original, and it was quite possible to put it together on a small budget.

So, after a month or so of writing, the script for ATM (a title that really shows my Kevin Smith fandom) was ready.

Languages cross over all the time, and two recent games - Immortality and Alan Wake 2 play with cinema in ways that a lot of movies rarely have a chance to.

2023, has been among the best years for video games, if not the best overall. But I would argue it has been an especially good year for culture in general, Here are some of my favourites.

People stop writing letters to Santa when they grow up, and that is fundamentally rude. I have been guilty of that same thing, but this year I have decided to break the streak and try to see what happens when, as an adult, you engage with the man. This is the conversation we had, shared with permission from the Bearded One.

Creative people, often, are not great at some of the skills needed to maintain a career, outside of the parts of the work which require creativity. Here are some tips to balance that out, some of the skills needed to dance with when you want to live with creativity.

From being a critic to creating: my career path, and the road towards understanding the power of curation.

Aspiring filmmakers very often try and find guidance and strategies from people who sell too broad a solution for very specific problems, before realizing there is really no one way to find your way forward.