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In a continuation of a series I did a while ago where I ranked artists' discographies, and in anticipation of Tenet which comes out next year some time, here is my ranking of all of Christopher Nolan's feature films, from Following to Dunkirk. Heads up, there are potential spoilers ahead for all of Christopher Nolan's films. 10) The Dark Knight Rises (M) It is the mark of a great filmmaker when something as monumentally entertaining as The Dark Knight Rises comes in as their bottom ranked film. But there are no two ways about it - Rises is too long, and there are plot holes that are impossible to ignore beyond the first viewing. Unlike a lot of people, it is not the ending that I have issues with - you have to respect the choice to swing for the fences so hard in the finale of one of the greatest and most iconic trilogies of our time. Upon scratching the surface it is the lack of depth to be found in its philosophical and political aspirations, and the aforementioned plo...

We are at the point in Kanye's career where weird and unexpected album rollouts - often seemingly random and unprofessional from the outside - have become commonplace. By the time we had been given a third release date for what was supposedly going to be Kanye West's ninth album Jesus Is King there had been so much noise and meaningless chatter and back and forth on the internet from not only Kanye himself but seemingly everyone else in the music industry that I was on the verge of not caring anymore. Normally I try to take every album on its own merit as much as I can and take outside influence and context to further inform my opinion as is appropriate, but in the case of Jesus Is King all of the bullshit surrounding it was unavoidable. I was always going to have something to say about the idea of Kanye West releasing a "gospel album", and by the time it was actually available to listen to my mind had almost entirely been made up already. Which was unfair to a degree...

  © Jonty Cornford 2019 Diary entry #1 26 February, 2017 I’m not really sure why I’m writing this, but I’ll get it down anyway before I lose my nerve. It’s like I need to, like an exorcism. Like maybe once it’s down it will be less real, and I might be able to sleep a little better at night. One can hope, I guess.      My hope is that by sending you this selection of my life’s work you will understand the whole story that I have been hiding from the whole time.      I never used to feel like this. I always thought my life would end up exactly how I had planned it, that I would be able to look back and see everything perfectly in order. A normal life. What does that look like? It’s almost funny to me now how set I was on finding something I wasn’t even sure existed in the form I wanted. It’s awful how ironic life can be sometimes.     There has been a darkness bearing down on me, something dragging at my heels. ...