On principle, I’m repulsed by routine, but I also cling to it like a big blue blanket. I find that I expend most of my energy during each day in this tug of war between routine and rebellion. Yesterday, just like every day, I woke up around 3am. I tossed around for about an hour, found Starbuck in the folds of the duvet near the foot of the bed and dragged her lifeless body up to chest level for some forced spooning. She’s like melatonin with fur. Rubbing her belly and sme

“Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.” — Vladimir Lenin What is the future of film, and does film necessarily need to be on a specific evolutionary trajectory? Some might argue that film’s evolution is about creating an ever more realistic and immersive experience, until the boundaries between the viewer and the screen are practically invisible, similar to the holodeck made famous by Star Trek: The Next Generation... ...but just as biological evolution d