The real pleasure of Nicolas Winding Refn’s work for me lies in the mere spectacle of watching someone go for broke so beautifully. And it’s no accident that we’re talking about s…

1 post published by Teodor Reljic during August 2026

It’s often our dumbest beliefs that end up sticking the hardest, which is probably why they stick in the first place: surely we couldn’t be that dumb, and these beliefs, these persisten…

You can find me bothering YouTube again! Here’s a couple of updates: An Evening With Jeff VanderMeer at the Malta Book Festival 2025 This was a bucket list moment. And Jeff was generous, grac…

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Bruce Micallef Eynaud’s independently produced short film, We Three Kings, reboots and revamps the Biblical tale of the three magi as a swords-and-sorcery romp

1 post published by Teodor Reljic during July 2025

We all begin from a place of idiocy when tackling family trauma. This is largely because very few of us can hit the ‘pause’ button on life and explore our damage at our leisure, taking …

SPOILERS all the way. I’m not kidding. Consider yourself duly warned. The vampires in Sinners do not represent white supermacy per se. At least, not in a definitive form, insofar as vampires …

The central couple of Vincenzo Latronico’s fourth novel Perfection — translated into English by Sophie Hughes and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions — are living the digital nomad…

I. Is there a standard expectation of when our earliest memory is expected to be? The image I have in mind feels a bit late in the day – I was six or seven years old – but I can’t grasp for a…

Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. The space of loneliness is of course different from that of solitude – with the latter assuming the mantle of the heightened position, the zen-like placid calm a…

Read Part 1 here Both my parents are now dead, and of course I have plenty of regrets and unasked questions which will forever remain pending in a rotting pigeon-box; snuck in but unopened, and I&#…

1 post published by Teodor Reljic during February 2025

DISCLAIMER: Here be spoilers. Like most nerds of my generation – lapsed or otherwise and to varying degrees of commitment and intensity – I cling hard to the pure memories of my earliest …

Our tickets to the National Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest happened to coincide with Donald Trump’s inauguration, and while this is the kind of coincidence one …

“It’s a real film, Jack.” I keep thinking about this quote from Boogie Nights whenever I watch something that isn’t just fodder for streamers or yet another placeholder entr…

Monthly Archives: August 2024 I was molested on the bus when was around eleven or twelve. A squat man in a red shirt, specs and black hair approached me — we were both standing — and started to pinch and rub at my armpits and neck. Determined,…