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Aug 4, 2022

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Tired And Emotional | Orbital Operations

The weekly letter from Warren Ellis, creator of CASTLEVANIA on Netflix, best-selling author of GUN MACHINE, NORMAL and TRANSMETROPOLITAN

Chekhov’s Water Bottle: BULLET TRAIN (2022)

This film got a bad rap in reviews, and I suspect it’s because BULLET TRAIN is that rarity in action films: it’s for writers and actors. It’s all about structure, in a very defin…

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Feb 21

“The main social media systems will only work properly for a user if the user pays for them to work properly.” -

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Paying To Be The Product

And this, I suppose, is how it ends. Instagram and Facebook users will now be able to pay for a blue tick verification, parent company Meta has announced.Meta Verified will cost $11.99 (£9.96) a mo…

Dennis Potter’s Last Interview

I return to this from time to time. Dennis Potter was one of the great television writers. In 1994, he learned he had cancer. He resolved to finish his last works, and undertook a final interview w…

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Feb 9

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An Injection For Hunger

In which writer Paul Ford tries a new drug for Type 2 diabetes management and discovers it completely switches off his previously hyperactive hunger signal and basically goes crazy-wall for a while…

DUNE: The Throat Singing

The throat singing in this scene is performed by Michael Geiger, and I found a video interview with him, usefully chaptered in the notes under the video. It gets right into the technical stuff of b…

The Real Gray Man: BACK BLAST, Mark Greaney

Aurbach had always looked as if he’d just been awakened from a deep sleep and told that his dog had died. I watched THE GRAY MAN film on Netflix, which I was aware was based on a series of novels a…

The World’s Oldest Runestone, The World’s Oldest Art

Norwegian archaeologists believe they have found the world’s oldest runestone inscribed almost 2,000 years ago, making it several centuries older than previous discoveries, they announced on …

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Jan 17

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Jan 16

Announcing the audio drama podcast serial THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT. Starring James Callis, created & written by Warren Ellis, produced by Kevin Kolde, Fred Seibert, Brian Guicciardo and Warren Ellis, directed by Meredith Layne. More:

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The Department Of Midnight | Orbital Operations

The weekly letter from Warren Ellis, creator of CASTLEVANIA on Netflix, best-selling author of GUN MACHINE, NORMAL and TRANSMETROPOLITAN

Gallery: Zachary Friedberg. Roald Dahl’s writing routine. Terribly cosy. In the dystopian play “The Ventriloquists’ School” by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a ‘free man’ falls into a deserted street …

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Jan 12

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Jan 11

It’s Okay To Smile: My Personal History With Depression And My Father -

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It’s Okay To Smile: My Personal History With Depression And My Father

I wrote this for my newsletter, several weeks ago. I received many responses asking me to put the piece on a permanent web page. So here it is. The other week, I ended with the sign-off: ” So…

How Do You Choose The Medium For Your Story?

A thing I’ve been asked often in the past: how can I tell when a new idea is a graphic novel or a prose novel? I’ve previously answered that it’s instinct from experience, but tha…

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (2022)

Proper fucking Cronenberg, mate. As Lynch’s TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN seemed a summation of Lynch’s career, so too does CRIMES OF THE FUTURE appear to present Cronenberg returning to the s…

Directed attractively by Mark Mylod, whose name I recognise from SUCCESSION, and written with energy and wit by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss, with a very nice score by Colin Stetson. Inspired by Tracy…

It’s Okay To Smile: My Personal History With Depression And My Father

I wrote this for my newsletter, several weeks ago. I received many responses asking me to put the piece on a permanent web page. So here it is. The other week, I ended with the sign-off: ” So…

MONSTROUS: The Buddha In The Pit

MONSTROUS is a six-part Korean tv show. It concerns the excavation, in a small Korean town, of an ancient statue of the Buddha that has a curse locked inside it. This was of particular interest to …

ooh.directory: A Curated Collection Of Living Blogs

A Phil Gyford project, ooh.directory is “a place to find blogs that interest you.” Phil has long been an boon to the living web, and I think this project comes along at just the right t…

Gallery: Michael Lange’s photos of the French Alps. On scheduling creativity: She goes on to say that she finds it “pathetic” that she has to “block out time for thinking.” Patchett is not al…

Not the ice cream van in question, but grandad did get his ice cream from Rossi’s I recently caught up on the second season of SLOW HORSES, still remarkably faithful to the Mick Herron books …

Styled “Knives Out: Glass Onion,” but writer/director Rian Johnson prefers it to have the standalone title GLASS ONION. Quite rightly, too: the Poirot stories are not styled The Mysteri…

Psychedelic Architecture: Ben Tolman

Excellent gallery accompanies this interview. Great inventions, stunning perspectival skills in some of it – there’s Escher in there, but also a real sense of modern comedy. Something t…

This is warrenellis.ltd, a personal notebook about storytelling, culture and knowledge work by the New York Times-bestselling author and screenwriter Warren Ellis. Being a personal notebook, it com…

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Dec 15, 2022

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