Essays
The Anti-Biopic: On Refusing the Cradle-to-Grave Shape
The biopic is a genre with a default structure, and the default is almost always the problem. An argument for the biographical films that refuse the shape.
Lena Ashworth·18 Jan·5 min
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The biopic is a genre with a default structure, and the default is almost always the problem. An argument for the biographical films that refuse the shape.
The rom-com was commercially dead for a decade. It returned in 2023-25 and the return was not coincidence. An essay on what the surrounding cinema had become, and why audiences wanted this back.

A year out, Beyoncé's country album is not a country album. It is a demolition project. An argument for Cowboy Carter as one of the most important genre interventions of the decade.