In: Film & TV Criticism

Stutz: The Ethics of a Public Psychotherapy
- 25th January 2023
- Aaron Balick
- Film & TV Criticism
Jonah Hill has produced a film that seeks to de-mystify therapy and share its benefits by bringing his own shrink Stutz,...

Sex Education Isn’t About Sex At All: it’s about emotional intelligence
- 10th October 2021
- Aaron Balick
- Film & TV Criticism
Season three of Sex Education is nothing short of exceptional. While its first episode worried me a little that it was...

When Status Anxiety is No Longer Just in Your Head: a review of Black Mirror’s Nosedive
- 25th October 2016
- Aaron Balick
- ArchiveFilm & TV Criticism
We would like to believe, just like all those flowered memes flying across Twitter and Instagram, that it doesn’t matter what...

The Spectre of Memory: Psychoanalysing Bond
- 16th November 2015
- Aaron Balick
- ArchiveFilm & TV Criticism
Bond is not really a man for the analytic couch – he has little time for self-reflection, what with all that...
Interstellar: The Ghost is Not in the Machine
- 10th November 2014
- Aaron Balick
- ArchiveFilm & TV Criticism
Poor Christopher Nolan. He must have wanted to flagellate himself (hard) when Gravity came out. No doubt Interstellar was more than...
The elusive experience of youth: Boyhood, a psychological review
- 21st July 2014
- Aaron Balick
- ArchiveFilm & TV Criticism
Oscar Wilde famously quipped that youth was wasted on the young. When you hear this quote as a young person, either you...