The American TV mini-series MAID is mostly about abusive and emotionally complex relationships, and it focuses mainly on the difficulties of the main character – Alex, a young mother who is the victim of several emotionally complex and abusive relationships.…
The thriller I Came By tells the story of childhood friends Toby and Jay, now in their early twenties, who break into the houses of very wealthy people in London and spray paint “I came by” on their walls. Important…
The film Locke follows, in this case literally, the journey of a man named Ivan Locke from his job in Birmingham to a hospital in London. I say literally, because the movie begins with Locke getting into his car after work,…
On the face of it, Mare of Easttown is a television show that follows a murder investigation in a small town, a subgenre of crime drama series that we’ve all seen before. A murder mystery or some other serious crime…
At the center of the plot of the film Tallulah, is the spontaneous kidnapping of a one-and-a-half-year-old baby girl by a young woman who, quite by chance, witnessed the baby being severely neglected by her mother, and decided, rather impulsively,…
Starting off as what seems to be a drama about the hardships of a couple who wants but can’t have children, the film What We Wanted isa much deeper and more interesting look at parenting, and at creating people. In…
Although there are plenty of ‘life-affirming’ films, and although it is important to address some of them, or the genre in general, these types of films are usually too superficial, sometimes embarrassingly shallow, to be taken seriously, so I skip…
The following is a review of the movie Arrival from an antinatalist perspective. Given that the film’s plot is revealed in this text, if you have not seen the movie and intend to, please read this review after watching it.…
In this section, I will address some movies and TV shows that I think are interesting to review from an antinatalist perspective. This will not reflect my personal taste in movies and TV shows, or my recommendations for movies and…
There was a special screening of the film Idiocracy recently. Although the film does not necessarily carry an antinatalist message (and some would even say the opposite), I thought it was an excellent opportunity to talk about antinatalism. At a…