Jack Graham

On The Boy (2016) On The Boy (2016) As a paying member (thank you!) you're getting this review/essay in its first draft form, in advance of publication at Eruditorum.press. The Boy, a film from 2016, written by Stacey Menear and directed by William Brent Bell, has been largely-forgotten, but deserve

On the End of the World, the Zombie Apocalypse, and other comforting Bourgeois Fantasies Say what you like about the zombie apocalypse but at least you don’t have to go to work in the morning. Zombie movies are about how much fun the zombie apocalypse will be. Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Romero’s

As I write this, the news - and Twitter - is full of the fact that Boris Johnson has called Corbyn a “mugwump”. He seems to have intended it as… well, actually, it’s hard to say what he intended. But the word is interesting. It meant ‘turncoat’ for a long time after being coined in the US in the C19