Interests
What I watch, read, play and keep coming back to when I’m not designing.
Most anticipated
Avengers: Doomsday
Robert Downey Jr. returns as Doctor Doom, and the Avengers have to stop him. Opening weekend can't come fast enough.
Most anticipated
Dune: Part Three
Two films of build-up lead to this. I want to see how Villeneuve ends Paul Atreides' story, on the biggest screen I can find.
The Godfather Part II
Michael Corleone tightens his grip on the family business while flashbacks trace young Vito's rise in early 1900s New York.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Stockbroker Jordan Belfort builds a fortune on fraud and excess, then watches it unravel.
Back to the Future
Teenager Marty McFly is sent to 1955 in a time-travelling DeLorean and has to make sure his parents fall in love.
Casino Royale
Daniel Craig's first Bond film: a young 007 plays a high-stakes poker game against a terrorist banker.
Skyfall
MI6 is attacked and a former agent targets M, pushing Bond back to his past and his Scottish home.
The Imitation Game
Alan Turing leads the team that breaks the Nazi Enigma code, and later faces persecution for who he was.
Ex Machina
A young programmer is invited to test whether a humanoid AI built by a reclusive CEO has real consciousness.
Goodfellas
Henry Hill's life inside the mob, from teenage runner to informant, told over three decades.
Pulp Fiction
Interlocking Los Angeles crime stories told out of order, with hitmen, a boxer and a mob boss's wife.
The Departed
In Boston, an undercover cop in the mob and a mob mole in the police each race to unmask the other.
Bad Boys II
Miami narcotics detectives Mike and Marcus chase an ecstasy ring in a loud, over-the-top action comedy.
Deadpool
A wisecracking mercenary turned near-unkillable by an experiment hunts the man who ruined his life.
The Amazing Spider-Man
Peter Parker's origin retold: new powers, the mystery of his parents and a fight with the Lizard.
Training Day
A rookie LAPD officer spends one day with a corrupt veteran narcotics detective, played by Denzel Washington.
Fences
August Wilson's play on screen: a former ballplayer turned garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh and his strained family.
The Dark Knight
Batman faces the Joker, an agent of chaos who tests Gotham's institutions and its hero's rules.
Vice
A satirical biopic of Dick Cheney's climb from Washington staffer to the most powerful vice president in US history.
Jungle Fever
A married Black architect's affair with his Italian-American secretary exposes racial tensions in New York.
The Aviator
Howard Hughes's rise as a filmmaker and aviation pioneer, and his struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Ready Player One
In 2045, a teenager hunts for a hidden Easter egg in the virtual world OASIS to inherit its creator's fortune.
The Bourne Ultimatum
Jason Bourne closes in on the truth about the CIA programme that made him, while the agency tries to erase him.
Dune: Part Two
Paul Atreides joins the Fremen on Arrakis to take revenge on the family that destroyed his, and faces what that path will make him.
Die Hard
New York cop John McClane is the only thing standing between a group of terrorists and the hostages in a Los Angeles skyscraper on Christmas Eve.
Person of Interest
A reclusive billionaire and an ex-CIA operative use a government surveillance AI to stop violent crimes before they happen.
Daredevil
Blind lawyer Matt Murdock defends clients by day and fights crime in Hell's Kitchen as a masked vigilante by night.
The Punisher
Former Marine Frank Castle, grieving his family, wages war on crime and uncovers the conspiracy behind his past.
Billions
A US Attorney and a hedge fund titan clash in New York over money, power and the law.
Suits
A gifted college dropout bluffs his way into a top Manhattan law firm with no law degree.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
CIA analyst Jack Ryan is pulled from his desk into the field to stop global threats.
Reacher
Former military police investigator Jack Reacher drifts into trouble and solves it with muscle and logic, adapted from Lee Child's novels.
MobLand
Guy Ritchie's crime drama about a fixer keeping a London crime family together as a rival feud erupts.
The Gentlemen
An aristocrat inherits his father's estate and discovers it sits on a hidden cannabis empire.
Westworld
In a futuristic theme park staffed by lifelike androids, the hosts begin to break free of their programming.
The Lincoln Lawyer
Defence attorney Mickey Haller runs his Los Angeles practice from the back of a Lincoln.
Goliath
A washed-up lawyer takes on powerful corporations and the firm that pushed him out.
The Boys
A crew of vigilantes takes on corrupt, corporate-backed superheroes who abuse their powers.
The Wire
Baltimore seen through its police, dealers, dockworkers, schools and newsroom, one institution per season.
Power
A New York drug kingpin tries to leave the game behind while building a legitimate life as a nightclub owner.
Snowfall
Los Angeles in the 1980s, as the crack cocaine epidemic takes hold and reshapes the city.
Sherlock
A modern-day Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson solve crimes across present-day London.
Luther
Brilliant, volatile detective John Luther chases London's worst killers while his own life unravels.
Peaky Blinders
After the First World War, Tommy Shelby builds his Birmingham gang into a criminal and political force.
Bodyguard
A war veteran turned police protection officer is assigned to guard a controversial Home Secretary.
Queenie
A young Jamaican British woman in London navigates a painful breakup, work, family and her own healing.
Love Life
An anthology following one person per season through relationships on the road to finding love.
Breaking Bad
A chemistry teacher diagnosed with cancer turns to making drugs, and slowly becomes someone else.
Richard Pryor · Live on the Sunset Strip
Pryor talks openly about the freebasing fire that nearly killed him, his recovery and a trip to Africa, in a concert film shot at the Hollywood Palladium.
Eddie Murphy · Raw
A swaggering, fast and profane hour on relationships, fame and family, and one of the highest-grossing concert films ever.
Richard Pryor · Live in Concert
Often called the greatest stand-up film ever made: raw, personal and fearless about race and his own life.
Dave Chappelle · Killin' Them Softly
The special that made Chappelle a household name: sharp, relaxed storytelling filmed in Washington, D.C.
Kevin Hart · Laugh at My Pain
Hart's breakthrough concert film: stories about his childhood, his family and a lifetime of self-inflicted mishaps.
Dave Chappelle · Equanimity
A Netflix special from Chappelle's comeback run, mixing celebrity, race and politics in his slow-burn storytelling.
Patrice O'Neal · Elephant in the Room
A blunt, uncompromising hour on relationships, race and honesty from one of stand-up's most respected voices.
Chris Rock · Bigger & Blacker
High-energy, razor-sharp observations on race, relationships and money from Rock's second HBO special.
George Carlin · Jammin' in New York
Carlin picks apart language, American culture and everyday absurdities in an HBO special filmed in New York.
George Carlin · You Are All Diseased
Carlin at his darkest and most cynical, on religion, politics and the human condition.
Dave Chappelle · Sticks & Stones
A defiant Netflix special on cancel culture, celebrity and the limits of comedy.
Zero to One
Notes on startups and why the best ones create something genuinely new rather than copying what already works.
Robinson Crusoe
A shipwrecked sailor spends decades alone on an island, rebuilding a life from salvage and stubborn ingenuity.
Oliver Twist
An orphan escapes the workhouse and falls in with London's thieves in Dickens' attack on Victorian poverty.
Hooked
How habit-forming products work: the trigger, action, reward and investment loop behind the apps we can't put down.
MBA in a Box
Practical ideas from leading business thinkers, covering strategy, finance, marketing and management in one volume.
Fundamentals of Investment Management
A university textbook on how securities markets work and how portfolios are built, valued and managed.
The Theory of Analytical Finance
A technical study of the mathematics behind pricing, risk and valuation in modern finance.
Queenie
A young Jamaican-British woman in London juggles work, heartbreak and family while trying to find her footing.
Principles
Ray Dalio's guide to writing down your own principles for decisions at work and in life.
The McGraw-Hill Handbook of British Finance and Trade
A reference volume on Britain's financial institutions, markets and trading practices.
Gulliver's Travels
A ship's surgeon visits lands of tiny and giant people, a satire of politics, science and human folly.
The Wealth of Nations
The foundation of modern economics: division of labour, free markets and what makes nations prosper.
The Sum of All Fears
Jack Ryan races to stop a nuclear crisis that could tip the superpowers into war.
Patriot Games
Jack Ryan foils a terrorist attack in London and becomes the target of an IRA splinter group.
Killing Floor
The first Jack Reacher novel: a drifter arrested in a small Georgia town uncovers a deadly conspiracy.
The Visitor
Reacher is pulled into a string of murders of women linked to the U.S. military.
Persuader
Reacher goes undercover against a ruthless arms dealer tied to his own buried past.
Most anticipated
Grand Theft Auto VI
The holiday break is already earmarked for this: a controller, a long stretch of free time and a return to Vice City. January can wait.
NBA 2K16
Basketball sim with Spike Lee's career-mode story, and my pick for the GOAT of the series.
EA Sports FC 26
The latest edition of the football series, with updated squads, gameplay and Ultimate Team.
Far Cry Primal
Survive the Stone Age in Oros, taming beasts like the sabre-tooth and mammoth and leading a tribe.
Grand Theft Auto V
Three criminals pull heists across Los Santos in a huge open world told through three protagonists.
Red Dead Redemption
Former outlaw John Marston hunts his old gang across the dying American frontier.
Red Dead Redemption II
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang run from the law as the Wild West fades.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Near-future black ops with cybernetic soldiers, a branching campaign and fast movement.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Tactical 5v5 shooter where attackers breach and defenders fortify destructible rooms.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
A four-man Ghost squad takes down a drug cartel across an open-world Bolivia.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Nathan Drake is pulled out of retirement for one last treasure hunt with his brother.
Watch Dogs
Hacker Aiden Pearce turns a connected Chicago against its own corrupt systems.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye take on Victorian London's gangs and industrialists.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Pirate captain Edward Kenway sails the Caribbean in the Golden Age of Piracy.
Assassin's Creed III
Connor fights in the American Revolution, from Boston streets to frontier forests.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Big Boss rebuilds his army in a stealth open-world epic about revenge.
Saints Row IV
The Saints' leader becomes President of the United States, then gets superpowers to fight an alien invasion.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
CJ returns home to Los Santos and fights to save his family and neighbourhood in a 90s-set classic.
inFAMOUS: Second Son
Delsin Rowe discovers superpowers and takes on an oppressive agency in Seattle.
Prototype
Shapeshifter Alex Mercer tears through a virus-ravaged New York hunting his past.
Hitman: Absolution
Agent 47 breaks from his agency to protect a young girl, in one of the series' most cinematic entries.
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Miles takes up the mantle in a winter New York, with bioelectric venom powers.
Borderlands
Vault hunters loot, shoot and level up in a cel-shaded sci-fi wasteland on Pandora.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
The ranger Talion fights Sauron's orcs, with a Nemesis system that remembers every encounter.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
A one-armed shinobi in Sengoku-era Japan, with punishing posture-based swordplay.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Dragonborn explores a vast northern province in one of the most replayed RPGs ever.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Race your way up the Blacklist while evading police pursuits, and my GOAT racing game.
Need for Speed: The Run
A cross-country illegal race from San Francisco to New York with the mob on your tail.
Mafia III
Lincoln Clay builds a criminal empire against the mob in 1968 New Bordeaux.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
The latest entry in the Modern Warfare series.
Arsenal
- 1 Nov 2026
Beat Liverpool at Anfield
Kai Havertz's goal won it 1–0, ending a 14-year wait for a league win at Anfield and putting Arsenal top of the table.
- 16 Aug 2026
Community Shield over Man City
A 3–0 win over Manchester City to lift the Community Shield before the new season got underway.
- 30 May 2026
Champions League final
Reached the final in Budapest and held PSG to 1–1 over 120 minutes after an early Havertz goal, before losing 4–3 on penalties.
- 19 May 2026
Premier League champions
Crowned champions for the first time since 2003–04, ending a 22-year wait once Manchester City could no longer catch them.
Golden State Warriors
- 2025
Butler trade and Game 7 in Houston
Jimmy Butler arrived in a February trade, and the Warriors then beat the second-seeded Rockets in seven games, winning Game 7 103–89 on the road.
- Aug 2024
Stephen Curry's Olympic gold
Curry helped Team USA to gold in Paris, closing out the final against France with a run of late threes.
- June 2022
The 2022 championship
The Warriors beat the Celtics 4–2 for their fourth title in eight years, with Curry winning his first Finals MVP.
- Dec 2021
Curry becomes the all-time three-point leader
At Madison Square Garden, Curry passed Ray Allen's career record for three-pointers made.
Baltimore Ravens
- 2025 season
Kyle Hamilton, first-team All-Pro
The safety earned first-team All-Pro honours, and Derrick Henry ran for a career-high 216 yards and four touchdowns at Green Bay.
- 2024 season
Record-setting 2024 offense
Lamar Jackson posted a 119.6 passer rating and passed Michael Vick as the NFL's top rushing quarterback, while Derrick Henry ran for 1,921 yards and a franchise-record 16 touchdowns. AFC North champions at 12–5.
- 2023 season
Lamar Jackson's second MVP
Jackson won his second MVP as the Ravens went 13–4 and took the AFC's top seed.