In addition to other things, some fair, many foul in our dark world, this collective talks and thinks about film.

We have created a podcast (alas) called Film Conversations.

The idea?

The standard measure of the quality and importance of a movie, or, to be grand, ‘film’, is enjoyment.

This is certainly one measure, but not the only one.

There are layers to be considered: movies as a capitalist enterprise, as a propaganda form, as art, as a fleeting means of escape from the psychological and material pressures imposed by a collapsing world, as a peek into how the past – or, people in the past with access to money, technical capability and script writing skill thought of their world – and many other things I’m surely neglecting.

We talk about these things, avoiding the tendency of men to waste time with formless chatter. There’s no time for that; the world is burning. There is structure, agendas, talking points and laughing of course.

So not grim, but, well, how should I put this: also not a clown car of opinion.

You can subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and most of the other podcast apps.

There’s also a Youtube channel which features some of our best work to date such as this excellent conversation with Freudian film scholar Mary Wild: