Jack Graham

Same Log embarks on Spooktober 2026 with a look at Robert Wise's 1963 masterpiece The Haunting, the first and best adaptation of Shirley Jackson's classic novel The Haunting of Hill House. An unnerving, moving movie that influenced all subsequent supernatural cinema.

Daniel and I chat about Digger, the recent Tom Cruise vehicle that saw out Warner Bros. career as a film studio with a spectacular flop and a swarm of hostile reviews. Daniel liked it a lot more than I did, but we agree that it's a very interesting film, and it prompted a (I think) complex and fasci

Daniel and I discuss the Daily Wire's newest release, an amateurish trainwreck of genocidal bigotry (as one would expect). Our patrons get this before everyone else.

The neurotic, ill-assorted, misfit Same Log crew re-embark upon our tatty, workaday, grimdark 90s space ship, bringing all our personal demons with us, and voyage to the outer reaches of the solar system in search of the derelict hulk that is 1997's Event Horizon. Partly to honour the recently passe

Daniel and I take a look at a truly wretched film. Not just venomous racist filth but bizarrely incompetent. Even so, between giggling at the sheer ludicrous awfulness of it, we do find some interesting wrinkles that most other commentators have missed... CONTENT WARNINGS Episode Notes: Molly's Weir

Once again, paying patrons get a couple of days advance access to the new mainline IDSG. Episode Notes Associated Press, "Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants" https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law- center-criminal-investigation-d

George and I take a look at Lovecraft's closest approach to a traditional 'haunted house' ghost story. All at once a fun ghost train ride, a pseudo-vampire tale, a love letter to Providence, an attempt to reconcile his contradictory beliefs on materialism and the supernatural, and to express his gri

Hoo boy.

The new mainline IDSG will be available to patrons of myself and/or Daniel for a few days in advance of publication. It's a new thing we're trying out, probably for non-topical episodes only. The episode will be published on the main public feed, as usual, very soon. We will never charge for any mor

George and I finally snuggle into in our parkas, strap on our mountaineering gear, and embark on an assault on the north face of Lovecraft's towering, snow-capped masterpiece... and find ourselves decidedly unimpressed by it, at least as a narrative or as prose. We do find plenty of interesting stuf

I swear to god this isn't becoming a gross-out gore-hound flick kinda podcast.

Daniel and I embark on what will probably be a new series within our bonus episodes. Chats about great SF novels, maybe especially SF novels about robots and AI, and maybe especially about Asimov - a big (if problematic) figure for Daniel. In this episode we discuss Asimov's first novel The Caves of

George Daniel Lea and I tackle the Lovecraft story that even die-hard Lovecraft-apologists have to admit is 'the racist one'. And holy shit, is it. So yeah, content warnings... though I tend to think my audience has a high tolerance.

Our SF/Horror series continues with a look at one of the big ones, if not THE big one, 1979's seminal Alien, a movie which genuinely needs no introduction...

The gang is back together! Elliot Chapman rejoins George Lea and myself to commence a new series. It's Spooktober 4, our SF/Horror cinema season! Except... this can't be Spooktober, can it? What do we call it? Sparch? Anyway... we commence a new series of podcast discussions about Horror cinema. Thi

After we finished discussing Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep, George Lea and I kept talking for about an hour.

George Lea and I take a break from Baltimore, Maryland and head back to Arkham, Massachusetts, where we encounter H.P. Lovecraft's surprising late tale The Thing on the Doorstep. This is a fast and entertaining read with some very surprising subject matter for old HPL... a gory horror crime story fe

George and I finally get to the explosive double climax of Season 2. The Vergers plotline and the Hannibal/Will plotline both reach their ear-bursting conclusions (for now anyway) near simultaneously. Don't you just love it when everybody finishes together?

More whimsy from Jack, I'm afraid. But we're all friends here. I once again indulge my frustrated actor fantasies with this unabridged recording of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's strangely unpleasant gothic short story, The Leather Funnel, a disturbing Parisian tale of occult obsession, psychic residue, t

Back to Baltimore. If we can call the surreal dreamscape of this show 'Baltimore'. George Lea and I tackle the next two episodes, the penultimate couplet of Series 2. The show is now in high gear, steeped in its own private mythology, its own system of symbolism, and utterly intoxicated with itself.

Kit, Daniel, and myself consider the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Yellow Face'. It's not what you might be thinking. Actually a very interesting story, and one of our more interesting conversations, I think.

Bad, rambling movie. Good, rambling podcast.

Daniel and I discussed the Kurt Vonnegut novel Mother Night and its 90s film adaptation.

George Daniel Lea and I chat about Lovecraft's decidedly odd ghostwriting project The Mound. Unusually for Lovecraft this is a Western, a straight ghost story (for a while), and quite luridly violent (at least in reference). A deranged and reactionary social satire in the manner of the utopian/dysto

Myself, Daniel, and Kit resume our tour through the Sherlock Holmes canon. I missed recording these so much! We rejoin Holmes and Watson in 'Silver Blaze', a famous story (this is where "the curious incident of the dog in the night time" comes from) in which they travel to Derbyshire to investigate

Daniel and I consider the 2002 BBC television film adaptation of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen about the famous and mysterious wartime meeting in Nazi-occupied Denmark between Danish physicist Nils Bohr and his German disciple (and friend, and substitute son) Werner Heisenberg at precisely the mom

George Lea continue our Hannibal retrospective. The first episode we talk about in this installment contains the line "Is your social worker inside that horse?" and the next George persistently refers to as "the furry episode". As with the last two episodes of Hannibal we talked about, these two are

Daniel and I conclude our mini-series on movies about popes with this 'drama' 'based on' the 'true story' of the resignation of Joseph Ratzinger AKA Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) and his succession by Jorge Bergoglio AKA Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce). It's... a film. That much is undeniable. A

George and I burrow deep into the accursed hills of Vermont in search of the hidden meanings of one of Lovecraft's late great tales; The Whisperer in Darkness, published in 1931, is a genuinely spooky paranoid thriller about the battle of wits, nerves, subterfuge, espionage, guns, and dogs (just so

Once again, hear the sausage before it is made. Or while the pig is being slaughtered? I dunno. This metaphor got away from me.

Hannibal Digested returns! (Or most of it does anyway... sadly, Elliot has mysteriously disappeared, while George and I look very well fed.) We reach the mid-point of Hannibal, episodes 2.6 Futamono & 2.7 Yakimono... deceptively simple episodes (simple for this show anyway!) which look very 'nuts an

Hi. An idea of mine: let the patrons hear the (almost entirely) raw, unedited, untreated audio from an IDSG recording session. No music, no levelling, (almost) no cuts; no post-production at all. Just pure behind-the-scenes realness - aside from some very minor privacy snipping. I know I'm intereste

George Lea and I convene for another Lovecraft Retrospective (which I'll file here as a Same Log, despite the sad lack of Elliot) to talk about H.P. Lovecraft's strange, neglected, undervalued, late masterpiece The Shadow Out of Time. For my money, this bizarre and ominous tale of mental time travel

Talking about an amazing novel with an amazing friend.

The Same Log gang reconvene to discuss David Cronenberg's 1983 movie adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone - a 'perfect' movie according to me and still horribly relevant.

Daniel and I continue our new theme (movies about Popes) with an unexpected consideration of 1968's MGM release The Shoes of the Fisherman, a now largely forgotten and self-consciously prestigious Cold War / Papacy drama. Anthony Quinn plays a saintly Russian dissident who stumbles bass-ackwards ont

For this bonus episode, we are honoured and delighted to be joined by our friend, our homie, our bro, our cru-member, classy actorly thespian Elliot Chapman (familiar to my listeners from Not the Same Log, Hannibal Digested, and various other collaborations with me) to discuss Don Siegel's grimy, fa

Our 'movies about presidents' series continues (probably for four more years) with a much better movie this time. 1993's Wolfgang Peterson joint In the Line of Fire, featuring Clint Eastwood again (are we... doing a Clint Eastwood season now?) as jaded old Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, vetera

Our series on 'movies about presidents' continues with a fun discussion of this 1997 'thriller', written by legendary Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman based on the debut novel of David Baldacci, starring/produced/directed by noted chair-interviewer Clint Eastwood, and boasting a splendid cast

I'm back with Daniel and Elliot to chat about the original, the inimitable, the genre-transforming movie, Hellraiser, 1986, written and directed by Clive Barker.

Continuing a consideration of ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ by M.R. James and its BBC television adaptation by Lawrence Gordon Clark Continuing a consideration of ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ by M.R. James and its BBC television adaptation by Lawrence Gordon Clark Links to all previou

New essay. On Protestantism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and their relation to capitalism. New essay. On Protestantism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and their relation to capitalism. The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. And for a society based upon the production of commodities, in which

The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. And for a society based upon the production of commodities, in which the producers in general enter into social relations with one another by treating their products as commodities and values, whereby they reduce their individual private labou

I reconvene with George & Elliot for our belated Christmas / New Years celebration, a discussion of Roger Corman's masterpiece, 1964's The Masque of the Red Death, an adaptation of about four different Poe stories and Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Sade's 120 Days of Sodom. A gorgeous and spe

Big episode about a big movie, 1974's BBC television film masterpiece Penda's Fen, written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke. Have a good end of 2024 / start of 2025 everyone.

This Patreon has seen a small but significant rise in subscriptions and pledges in the last month and I can only blush and splutter with gratitude. Thank you soooo much to all you amazing people - old friends, new friends, returning friends - who value my work and who help me out. I will continue to

The alt-right is now a past mode, but its influence as a stage in a process is still working itself out. Paleolibertarianism was a consciously devised mutation of Austrian-influenced libertarianism, concocted by the late-20th century’s most prominent devotee of Austrian dogma, Murray Rothbard (and h

Spooktober 3: Folk Horror (or Folktober, if you insist) continues. Elliot Chapman, George Daniel Lea, and myself, dance and frolic in home-made costumes to keep our appointment with The Wicker Man, Anthony Shaffer's and Robin Hardy's brilliant, bizarre, hilarious, terrifying, and ferociously materia