Originally published in print November 2020. It seemed like, for all of last summer, you couldn’t move anywhere on YouTube without being greeted by an ad for Cobra Kai. It felt inescapable, and so I wrote it off in annoyance. … Continue reading Cobra Kai’s Back Baby!
It seems these days that modern pop music has become the same songs again and again, never diversifying from a hackneyed collection of three identical pop songs, mashed and remixed in different combinations. These pop love songs are either musicians … Continue reading Singing for the Dying of the Day The Case For Indie Music In The Face Of Pop
Back in October 2019, Martin Scorsese made headlines by claiming that the MCU was “not cinema”, and that Marvel films were like “theme parks”. Now, this response reeks of gate-keeping and genre snobbery, but I do have to, in part, … Continue reading How the MCU Has Changed Film