Cole Haddon
One Surreal Day in 1977: When Bing Crosby Met David Bowie
Every Christmas season, Bing Crosby and David Bowie’s “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy” makes its reappearance, reminding the world yet...
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Cole Haddon
- Dec 1, 2022
- 1 min
Monthly Pop-Culture Consumption Summary: November 2022
This past November… FILMS I watched 18 FILMS. Average year of release of the films I watched was 2004. 8-BIT CHRISTMAS AD ASTRA BARBARIAN...
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Cole Haddon
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
Inspiration for My Debut Novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
My debut novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD was released three months ago. Presented in a recent Medium article by me are numerous...
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Cole Haddon
- Nov 14, 2022
- 3 min
How John Denver Helped Me Find My Way Back Home
An essay about how music can connect us to each other, through grief and even across time and space. It is 2016. My mother has just died...
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Cole Haddon
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
The End is Nigh: PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Hits Shelves in ONE WEEK!
In one week my debut novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD hits shelves, the culmination of four years of dedicated work and nearly...
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Cole Haddon
- Jul 28, 2022
- 1 min
The Great COVID-19 Gap: Why are Film and TV Ignoring the Pandemic?
For the past several years, I've had the urge to return to my journalism roots. Primarily writing essays interested in pop-culture, and...
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Cole Haddon
- Jul 19, 2022
- 2 min
ROCKY: A Sports Film That's Far More Interested in Its Characters
While ROCKY is clearly a sports film, it’s a fairly disinterested one when it comes to the actual sport of it – boxing. The triumph of...
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Cole Haddon
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY: Why Screenwriters Should Study Nora Ephron's Perfect First Act
There are so many aspects of Nora Ephron’s WHEN HARRY MET SALLY script that deserve study by screenwriters and storytellers in general,...
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Cole Haddon
- Jul 10, 2022
- 3 min
When Thor Faced His Depression and Finally Became the Strongest Avenger
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER hits theaters today, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to explain why I think the character’s last onscreen...
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Cole Haddon
- Jul 7, 2022
- 3 min
"THE BOYS": The Best TV Series Ever Produced about America
A fellow storyteller suggested to me that “THE BOYS” desensitizes viewers to violence, making it dangerous to American culture. I...
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Cole Haddon
- Jun 26, 2022
- 1 min
THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING: Joan Didion's Case for the Art of Mourning
Joan Didion’s THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING shook me. I’ve struggled with persistent grief for several years after a series of deaths in...
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Cole Haddon
- Jun 23, 2022
- 2 min
The Book That Changed My Life: Michael Chabon's WONDER BOYS
Books have provided me a route to knowledge and a constant escape, and it boggles my mind that my debut novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE...
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Cole Haddon
- Jun 21, 2022
- 1 min
"RUSSIAN DOLL" Season 2: A Moving Study of Intergenerational Trauma
Intergenerational trauma – what happens when trauma is passed down through generations, so descendants continue to suffer from events...
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Cole Haddon
- Jun 19, 2022
- 2 min
GHOST: A Buddy Comedy Starring Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg?
I rewatched GHOST recently, a film that somehow balances mournful drama and screwball comedy as a train of character and plot reversals...
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Cole Haddon
- Jun 13, 2022
- 3 min
TOP GUN: MAVERICK: A Screenwriting MasterClass in How to Introduce Your Protagonist
By the time I got the chance to see TOP GUN: MAVERICK this past week, I’d heard from every direction that it was a great film with a...
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Cole Haddon
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
David Bowie's DIAMOND DOGS: His Greatest Album?
David Bowie’s eighth studio album DIAMOND DOGS (1974) rarely becomes a subject of conversation amongst the Bowie fanatics I know, even...
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Cole Haddon
- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
Less Than Two Months to Go: PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, My Debut Novel, Hits Shelves
My debut novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD will be released on the 1st of September (31st August if you're in Australia or New...
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Cole Haddon
- May 29, 2022
- 3 min
Into the Danger Zone: TOP GUN As a Deconstruction of Toxic Masculinity
I haven't had a chance to see TOP GUN: MAVERICK yet (Tuesday, I think). But inspired by my excitement for it, I want to share some...
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Cole Haddon
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome to the Multiverse of Madness that is Cole Haddon
Welcome to my blog, where I will be discussing my work as an author, screenwriter, and journalist, but also pop-culture in general and,...
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