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1 year

Should probably say - starting today, I'm doing my own weekly column called The Moment, unpacking a big moment from the week's tv/film/etc. It'll be under premium so you need an account to read (can be a free one).

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Louis Chilton

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5 years

Wrote (again) about @lisadraws 's wonderful, incomparable Tuca & Bertie for @theipaper , and why its cancellation was such a surprising, disheartening move

By cancelling Tuca & Bertie, Netflix betrays its promises

Netflix has axed one of its most progressive, widely-acclaimed original series. It's a myopic decision for a service whose domination is under threat

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Gauche little personal news tweet: as of yesterday I am now a Senior Culture Writer at the Independent 👍

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Curb Your Enthusiasm, one of TV's all-time great comedies, turns 20 tomorrow. It was an utter joy getting to write about it and speaking to some of the people who made it (Feat interviews w/ @TheRichardLewis @ohsnapjbsmoove @DavidHMandel & Richard Kind!)

Curb Your Enthusiasm at 20: The show that made a schmuck the hero

Louis Chilton celebrates 10 series of Larry David's taboo-breaking comedy masterpiece, which has influenced everything from Extras to Girls, and talks to key contributors, such as JB Smoove, Richard...

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My inaugural game review for the Independent is up - I wrote about @mediamolecule 's very impressive #DreamsPS4 , a game I can see myself sinking a whole lot of time into

Dreams review: LittleBigPlanet follow-up fizzes with potential

Media Molecule’s deceptively complex game gives players unprecedented freedom to create

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5 months

Several years ago I knew I had botched a job interview for a showbiz-y role at a British TV publication when they asked who my dream interview was, and I said, to completely blank faces, 'Walton Goggins'. Anyway here's this lol

Walton Goggins interview: ‘Now I don’t need approval from anyone’

The admired character actor talks to Louis Chilton about playing The Ghoul in the apocalyptic videogame adaptation, and the ‘tough time’ he had towards the end of the crime drama ‘Justified’

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3 years

Love to hear from readers

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Today, it's 20 years since Six Feet Under debuted on HBO. I spoke with Alan Ball, @MsKateRobin , @Rickycleve and @BruceEricKaplan about the making of what was, quite frankly, one of the best series ever made

‘Make it more f***ed up’: The story of Six Feet Under, 20 years on

HBO’s pioneering funeral home drama was one of a kind when it debuted in June 2001. Louis Chilton speaks to creator Alan Ball, as well as writer-producers Rick Cleveland, Bruce Eric Kaplan and Kate...

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5 years

Some (slightly belated) news: I started today at The Independent as a video games reporter! Time to get that donkey kong face tattoo I've always wanted

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4 years

I wrote about Gina Carano, Star Wars, and ""cancel culture"" 🙃

Cancel culture doesn’t exist – Gina Carano’s Mandalorian exit is proof of that

The controversy-hit star of Disney's Star Wars spin-off is being held up by some as a victim of 'cancel culture', writes Louis Chilton. But the phrase is all too often used to avoid accountability

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Spoke with Robert Sheehan about cults, The Umbrella Academy, and the existence of aliens. Mostly about aliens.

Robert Sheehan: ‘Everything that’s not the government line gets labelled a “conspiracy theory”’

The star of Misfits and The Umbrella Academy talks to Louis Chilton about the Netflix show’s Dallas-set return, the existence of aliens, and why some celebrities just aren’t cut out for politics

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4 years

I wrote something about The Last of Us Part II, but also about queer representation in games more generally - what it means, who gets to control it

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4 years

Five stars for #TheLastofUsPartII - it's a special game.

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1 year

Had a very interesting convo with Charlie Day about Fool's Paradise, his debut film that's been stomped on by critics.

Charlie Day interview: ‘Some film critics act like you’ve murdered their grandmother’

The ‘Horrible Bosses’ star speaks to Louis Chilton about ambitious comedy, his friendship with Guillermo del Toro, and why he’s still dissecting the poor response to his eccentric new satire ‘Fool’s...

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1 year

Felt surreal speaking to Kelsey Grammer. Fascinating guy; tragic life; one of the best to ever do it on screen.

Kelsey Grammer: ‘There have been periods where it seemed like Satan got a foothold’

The ‘Cheers’ star is a born-again Christian and plays a controversial real-life pastor in new film ‘Jesus Revolution’. He talks to Louis Chilton about faith, loss, and the return of Frasier Crane

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4 years

As a journalist, I'm classed as a 'key worker' because I perform the essential task of keeping the public informed during a time of crisis. Here is my latest piece, about Baby Yoda being cute

How Baby Yoda saved the new Star Wars

He’s green, he’s cute and he’s powering TV franchise The Mandalorian – but the lovable zen master is more than just a marketable meme, writes Louis Chilton

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4 years

Ahead of tonight's @BAFTAGames awards, I wrote about the greater value of video games in a time of crisis. Massive thanks to @studioZAUM , @remedygames and @foamswordgames for the interviews.

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6 months

Interviewed one of my favourite bands, the Mary Wallopers. They lived up to expectations

The Mary Wallopers: ‘Enough bands have pretended not to be Irish – like U2’

The raucous traditional folk outfit are touring the UK, causing mayhem. They stopped off to unload to Louis Chilton about Bono, the royals, posh festival audiences and why folk music shouldn’t be...

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5 years

TL;DR - Netflix really shat the bed

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5 years

Gotta say, having seen two of the old greats this afternoon - Neil Young (decent) and Bob Dylan (bad; perversely enjoyable) - it gives me such respect for those few artists who are still capable of great gigs even in old age. John Prine chief among them. Fair fuckin play

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3 months

help :(

I can’t stop dreaming about Keir Starmer – help!

For months, Louis Chilton has been having angry nocturnal visions of the Labour Party leader. He asks an expert what these dreams might mean – and how on earth he can make them stop

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Cut the clapping, Spider-Man fans – you’re ruining cinema

Louis Chilton’s love of going to the pictures is being sorely tested by whoops and cheers every time viewers spot an in-joke or Easter egg, especially from Marvel fans. Time to put a stop to this c...

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4 years

I spoke with the very affable @BarryKeoghan about Billy the Kid, Paul Newman and his new film Calm with Horses, which hits cinemas today

Calm with Horses star Barry Keoghan on having ADHD, growing up in care, and playing a Marvel villain

The Irish actor tells Louis Chilton why he's drawn to dark roles – and how he's been bulking up to play Druig in 'The Eternals' and star in a new biopic of Billy the Kid

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4 years

Looked at the replies to my ac take... they should call it Angrimal Crossing

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5 years

Thrilled to be in today's @theipaper reviewing the strokes at APE. Lots of talk of sound problems, etc, but from where I stood it sounded pretty good. You might even say it was...... different Strokes for different folks

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3 years

bit of saturday afternoon hyperbole for ya⚽️

Relegation time: The long, dismal death of Match of the Day

State of the Arts: For more than a decade, the BBC’s flagship football series has faced criticism for being ‘stale’ and ‘predictable’. With the show back on screens for another Premier League season,...

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4 years

Two game reviews this week, which is, I guess, well timed, given that we're all gonna be stuck inside going slowly mad for the foreseeable future. First is animal crossing, which is fun, if you can stomach the relentless niceness

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7 months

Pleased to see Jason Isbell win a couple more Grammys last night - one of the very best around. I interviewed him a few days before

Americana star Jason Isbell: ‘I can handle stupid rednecks but I don’t want Nazis’

The Grammy-winning artist speaks to Louis Chilton about his latest album ‘Weathervanes’, and working with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

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9 months

I interviewed Bella Ramsey, who stars in the new Chicken Run. Managed to keep the poultry puns down to a respectable half dozen or so

Chicken Run 2’s Bella Ramsey: ‘The thing I hated most was being patronised’

The Emmy-nominated star of ‘The Last of Us’ talks to Louis Chilton about the ‘fever dream’ of voicing the claymation sequel alongside HBO’s post-apocalyptic hit, and acting as a teenager in ‘Game of...

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3 years

Here's my interview with Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa (People Just Do Nothing's MC Grindah). Was a fun one!

People Just Do Nothing’s Allan Mustafa interview: ‘Everything I did, I failed at’

As the beloved BBC pirate radio series leaps onto the big screen, its co-creator tells Louis Chilton about his David Brent obsession, his journey from wayward teen to Bafta-winning telly phenomenon...

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5 years

bleak stuff. I'd say "voter discouragement grinch" is a new low but honestly not sure it cracks the week's top 10

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BBC FB stories last night a few hours b4 voter registration deadline...

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3 years

Hot Ones-style show called 'Rot Ones', in which celebrities are interviewed while consuming a series of increasingly rancid meats

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8 months

My latest interview AKA The Tell-Tale Hart

Kevin Hart interview: ‘Awards shows can be cold. I don’t consider them good gigs’

The in-demand actor and industry player talks to Louis Chilton about his new heist film, why feuds with other comics are beneath him and how people getting upset about comedians like him or Dave...

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4 years

River Phoenix would've turned 50 today; I wrote something about him

Stand by me: The cinematic legacy of River Phoenix

The actor would have turned 50 today but all too often the focus is on his untimely death rather than his contributions to the screen. Louis Chilton looks back at why his precocious talent is still...

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4 years

I wrote about Sideshow Bob, 30 years after he debuted in 'Krusty Gets Busted'

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5 years

I ranked the 20 best #ps2 games for its 20th anniversary. Probably the only such list which references George Orwell's 'Killing an elephant' essay. I'm fun at parties

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6 months

Ah man this is a bummer. I spoke to him a few years ago for a curb retrospective and he was very warm and really unusually generous with his time. Could hardly get him off the phone. And so, so funny in curb obviously

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Richard Lewis, one of America’s most beloved and revered stand-up comics who also played a fictionalized version of himself on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, died last night at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. He was 76. His death was confirmed by his

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5 years

Happy Uncut Gems day, everyone. Netflix have just added an absolute 5-star banger 💎🏀💎🏀💎🏀💎

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4 years

Here's an interview I did with Peter Sarsgaard, which covered (among other things) bat ownership, rioting and Kelly Reichardt

Peter Sarsgaard: ‘Racial injustice has been going on since America’s founding. Wouldn’t you riot?’

The actor talks to Louis Chilton about entrenched racism, his new psychological horror The Lie, hatred towards his beloved bats and why being in the new Batman doesn’t stop him being an indie film...

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4 years

i'm grogu

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1 year

Going on record as what seems to be Mission: Impossible 7's only hater. It's Spectre all over again. When this film is getting rinsed in rankings in 10 years time I want restitutions

Dead Reckoning’s script is dismal – Mission: Impossible has jumped the shark

Tom Cruise’s action sequel has been showered with acclaim from critics and fans alike. Louis Chilton doesn’t understand the hype

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5 years

Woke up this morning convinced I'd had a brilliant idea. Cinema trains! "One ticket for Planet of the Apes northbound", you'd say. Then you get the full cinema experience, but when Apes is over, you're in Hull

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3 years

I interviewed Tim Blake Nelson 🙌

Tim Blake Nelson: ‘The audience can thank God they don’t look as bad as I do’

The self-deprecating character actor has made a career stealing scenes, memorably in films by the Coen brothers, but now he’s stepping up as the lead in western drama ‘Old Henry’. He talks to Louis...

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5 years

Had a good time interviewing @BALOJI about his short film 'Zombies' and the programme he's curated for the London Short Film Festival ( @LSFF ) - which starts today #LSFF2020

Rapper Baloji on curating a programme at the London Short Film Festival

Belgian rapper and artist Baloji explains why short film is good for modern attention spans - and how his work breaks the rules of cinema

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4 years

Also, I reviewed Hitman 3. I didn't include it in the piece for fear of looking like a psycho, but garrotting people is just so, so fun. Pure dopamine hits with each yank of the wire. Make of that what you will

Hitman 3 is less goofy than its predecessors, but still murderously satisfying – review

IO Interactive’s acclaimed stealth series returns with the final entry in its World of Assassination trilogy

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4 years

I wrote a piece on Fall Guys, a game about which surely no-one but a miserable, self-righteous killjoy could find reason to complain🤡

Fall Guys is sweet, wholesome fun - but it could easily grow into a monster

The sugary appeal of Mediatonic's best-selling multiplayer romp is impossible to deny, writes Louis Chilton. With its limitless capacity for commercialism, however, we shouldn't be suprised if it one...

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5 years

Terrible decision for Netflix to cancel Tuca and Bertie, obviously. Even more depressing is the *very plausible* suggestion that it was because the crew were going to unionise. Gotta hope it's too good to not get picked up elsewhere

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5 years

How about everyone stops calling it 'retweeting your own jokes' and starts calling it 'getting wry on your own supply'

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5 years

Oh sweet they're showing the new bojack horseman film

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5 years

Extremely pleased to have written something for @LWLies - about Marriage Story and the absolute boy Stephen Sondheim

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8 months

These were the best new films I saw this year

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4 years

How Rick and Morty jumped the shark – from a sexual harassment scandal to virulent fans

It once revitalised cartoons for grown-ups but its sinister snark and air of toxic masculinity is starting to feel like it’s of a bygone era and the series is stagnating. Time to move on after season...

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4 years

Vividly unpleasant dream last night where I was shot dead by Tony Soprano and my final second was this rapid-fire montage of sopranos memes flashing over my eyes. Also Branislav Ivanovic was gunned down in a park by the Sicilian mafia. What does this mean @SigmundFreud

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Proud to be in today's @theipaper previewing the summer's films, including the new Almodóvar and a wretched-sounding weepy in which Kevin Costner plays a dog. It's also online here:

This summer's 20 hottest films — and when they hit your screens

From hotly anticipated Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw to the Sundance Film Festival's wining The Souvenie, Louis Chilton presents must-see films

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13 video games based on classic books for #WorldBookDay . Some of these are really quite mad.

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5 years

I got to write about all the TV shows I never shut up about irl, which was a *treat*

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2 years

Interviewed the very friendly Tom Felton

Tom Felton: ‘Emma Watson encouraged me to tell the whole story’

The actor who played Draco Malfoy has written a memoir of his years in the franchise, and the mental health struggles that followed. He talks to Louis Chilton about JK Rowling, fans ‘shipping’ him...

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@RobertJamesBone @darren_scott @IndyArts @SFXmagazine Ah I'm so sorry Darren, will amend immediately

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3 years

rebranding myself as a bezos defender

No, Mr Bond: Why Jeff Bezos won’t be the 007 villain fans fear

Many are worried that Amazon’s £6bn deal to buy MGM will take a brutal laserbeam to the integrity of the Bond franchise. But maybe it’s always just been ‘content’? And whisper it, but can it actually...

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4 years

Review embargo for #Cyberpunk2077 is up. Here are my thoughts on what many are calling "a game that's out this week"

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@Jacob_Stol It is *fuckin nuts* she wasn't nommed for the emmy

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I wrote about Heavy Rain, for its 10th anniversary

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Forget Grand Theft Auto - Heavy Rain was the most sadistic video game ever made

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Why Animal Crossing's Nature Day celebration is a farce #EarthDay2020

Animal Crossing’s Nature Day event is a farce – the Nintendo game teaches kids toxic lessons about...

The hit Switch game will celebrate its own in-game version of Earth Day tomorrow, but its positive message is undermined by gameplay that teaches kids to look at nature as a business opportunity,...

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4 years

For my last feature of 2020, I wrote about celebrity deaths. (hopefully not too morbidly)

Chadwick Boseman, Carrie Fisher and the imperfect grief of posthumous films

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a fitting way for a great actor to end his tragically short career on screen, writes Louis Chilton, but posthumous film roles aren’t always the best way to help us process...

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5 years

Here's a piece I wrote about the life of C-3PO (in case you hadn't heard: there's a #StarWars coming out)

Sidelined, suffocated, and nearly baked alive: The story of the man who didn’t want to play C-3PO

As the neurotic, gold-plated robot, Anthony Daniels was an accidental witness to a great interstellar story, writes Louis Chilton. In his new memoir, the actor recounts his life and career in a...

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scrooge, ya cheap bastard, you're a genius at this

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson returns with more bizarre, angry gems – review

It might not have the diamond-tight consistency of its first season, but Robinson’s Netflix comedy remains as original as ever

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Been playing this... review on 12 June #TheLastofUsPart2

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I remember I saw Lady Macbeth a few years ago and didn't really get the fuss about Florence Pugh. Turns out I was a total idiot

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I'm bored, bloated and somehow sick of watching football... here's a thread of my favourite TV of the decade, now that it's almost over

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I also spoke to Oliver Stone about nuclear power

Oliver Stone: ‘The worst nuclear scenario happened at Chernobyl – how many died?’

The multi-Oscar-winning director and his producer, Fernando Sulichin, talk to Louis Chilton about the message behind their campaigning documentary ‘Nuclear Now’

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The happy tedium of simulator games

Whether it’s driving buses or flipping houses, simulators often seem a world apart from the bombast of most video game best-sellers. As 'Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020' lifts the genre to new...

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Two somewhat large games out today, both of them good: Paper Mario: The Origami King, which is... pretty much what you'd expect. Fun.

Nintendo mixes gimmicks with substance in the charming Paper Mario: The Origami King - review

The sixth entry in the Paper Mario series is familiar, kid-friendly fun – but shows signs of evolution

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these were the best new films I saw this year

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I interviewed Ian McShane. Good fun! Great actor! The man likes to talk

Ian McShane on Deadwood, Twitter and American Gods: ‘I was getting bored with it’

The star of ‘John Wick’ speaks to Louis Chilton about intimacy coordinators, playing an ageing hitman in his new film ‘American Star’, and drawing the ire of ‘Game of Thrones’ fans

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My @Independent review of the Bayonetta/Vanquish re-releases, two games that are still - unsurprisingly - as fun as they've ever been. @platinumgames @SEGA

Bayonetta and Vanquish get a slick makeover with 10th Anniversary bundle – review

PlatinumGames has reached into the recent past to revive two acclaimed action games

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Why Judas and the Black Messiah should win the Oscar for Best Picture

Extraordinary work from Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield means Shaka King’s drama, about the betrayal of Black Panthers activist Fred Hampton, is hotly tipped for an acting trophy. But there’s...

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(i'm not doing that)

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I reviewed last night's Tyler the Creator gig. Good gig, good wig. Go fig(ure).

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Tyler, the Creator review ★★★★ an explosive, incendiary return to UK soil

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2 years

Got out of the habit of tweeting stuff I've written, for whatever reason, but anyway here's an interview I did with Star Wars' Moses Ingram

Moses Ingram: ‘Talking droids and aliens but no people of colour? It makes no sense’

The ‘Queen’s Gambit’ actor is going to a galaxy far, far away with her next role opposite Ewan McGregor in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’. But the Star Wars franchise shouldn’t be so removed from reality, she...

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V much enjoyed speaking to Ralph Macchio (My Cousin Vinny! The Deuce!), whose Karate Kid follow-up Cobra Kai comes to Netflix this Friday

Ralph Macchio interview: ‘The Karate Kid is like the best cheeseburger you ever had’

Far from painting fences since the 1980s, the former star has been busy on shows such as ‘The Deuce’ and is back in ‘Cobra Kai’, a TV series about the grown-up Kid. He talks to Louis Chilton about...

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Then there's Doom Eternal, which is also fun, if you can stomach the relentless horribleness

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Why Marvel comics are perfect for video games – but wrong for cinema

Hollywood’s obsession with serialised superhero franchises is blurring the very definition of cinema, writes Louis Chilton. In video games we find a format that fits the genre like spandex

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Wrote about one of the best

In praise of Judd Hirsch, the 87-year-old ‘chameleon’ vying for Oscar history

A blistering eight-minute appearance in ‘The Fabelmans’ landed Hirsch an Oscar nomination. On Sunday, he could become the oldest actor to ever win one. Louis Chilton looks back at the career of a...

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Wrote something for #BiVisibility day/week ❤💜💙

Netflix's The Politician ushers in a new era of bisexuality on screen

Bisexuality has been rare and misunderstood on TV, but with the rise in internet streaming, that's finally starting to change, writes Louis Chilton

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here is the piece that made Alan Sugar sick

Has the UK finally lost interest in The Apprentice?

The Alan Sugar-fronted series was once a bona fide sensation, writes Louis Chilton. But with the country in the grips of economic hardship, how much longer will everyone tolerate its worship of...

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@pJkTjKkSmYkNjH @Independent Thank you! 🙂

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3 years

@cosmonautbill The coward's toggle

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Louis Chilton

@LouisChilton

5 years

If anyone's bummed out about Broad City ending and BoJack soon following suit, the good news is they literally had a baby together?!? Anyway here's my review

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@LouisChilton

3 years

In lieu of sharing my Spotify Wrapped, here's something I (an insufferable buzzkill) wrote about the whole bleak endeavour

Spotify Wrapped 2021 has gone even further upriver than last year

The streaming giant’s end-of-year review has become a fixture of the Christmas period. But while everyone’s listening statistics are social media gold dust, there could be something more insidious at...

www.independent.co.uk

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Louis Chilton

@LouisChilton

5 years

Here's my review of the Adnan Syed doc for @theipaper (!) in which I get on something of a high horse

The Case Against Adnan Syed: vital popular journalism or exploitation?

This slick new documentary looks at the murder case popularised by the Serial podcast in 2014, but does it shed any new, valuable light?

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3 years

Really good piece, this

Kevin EG Perry

@KevinEGPerry

3 years

To celebrate the return of SUMMER I tracked down Mountain Girl (of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test fame!), SF rock writer @joelselvin , the awesome @guycalledgerald and Hacienda DJ @graemepark to hear their wild tales about what makes a true Summer of Love:

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16. Detroiters (Comedy Central) - Gutted this was cancelled. Funny, inventive, and immensely likeable sitcom from Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson.