GROSS - cinema history and criticism

A NO KINGS SPECIAL - Villeneuve’s Dune - aristocratic excess

The distant future is nasty, brutish and so much sand in your picnic.

Oct 19 • 

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GROSS REMAKE 1944 - a Catholic hymn to capital from the city of labour

Debt as happy ending

Oct 11 • 

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September 2025

Eddington and Catherine Liu - further reading

Links to articles, essays, videos… and some merch!

Sep 18 • 

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Eddington live chat with Catherine Liu

Battleship Potemkin next!

Sep 17 • 

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Correct link for tomorrow's Substack Live with Professor Catherine Liu

We're talking about Eddington at 11am PDT, 2pm EDT, 7pm BST

Sep 15 • 

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Here's how to join Tuesday's Substack Live event with Professor Catherine Liu

We're discussing Eddington, a COVID drama that's divided opinion.

Sep 15 • 

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A Substack Live event with Professor Catherine Liu on Tuesday

Open to all. We'll be talking about Eddington, a dark COVID Western that's gaining in cultural relevance by the day.

Sep 14 • 

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August 2025

GROSS/63 1972, part three - is The Godfather conservative?

More to the point: is it a melodrama?

Aug 26 • 

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GROSS DISTRACTION - Weapons - an embarrassment of genres

There's genre fluidity and then there's genre hoarding

Aug 18 • 

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GROSS REMAKE 1939 - What would Rhett Butler do?

Gone with the Wind's anti-hero is a Promethean capitalist and a geopolitical realist.

Aug 15 • 

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GROSS/63 1972, part two - is The Godfather decadent?

Will I be kicked out of film club if I tell you of course it's decadent? It's immoral too.

Aug 8 • 

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July 2025

GROSS DISTRACTION - Donald Trump, midtown mendacity and downtown depravity

The President was formed in Manhattan's demi-monde

Jul 19 • 

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