The Bull Sheet #7: Change of Plans
Bi-weekly news and updates on what's going on at The Bull's Eye.
Welcome to a new edition of The Bull Sheet—my bi-weekly musings, rants, and personal reflections on film, writing, journalism, and everything happening with The Bull’s Eye.
So there’s an old military saying that “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” While it has become a somewhat common saying, few know where it came from. It was the 19th-century Prussian Field Marshal with the very spruce name of Helmuth Karl von Moltke the Elder who first coined the phrase.
When I started The Bull’s Eye, my plan was to spend much of the year outside award season, when I’m deep into everything Golden Globes-related, to do more personal articles about films, tv series and pop culture that I like. The reasoning is that in the three years I’ve voted in the Globes, most of the press opportunities have been focused on the award season, that is, the last months of the year.
Around this time, my email fills up with invites to press events, preview screeners and even parties and receptions in Hollywood I can’t go to since I’m stuck here in Norway. But in the rest of the year, it has mostly been quiet.
But this year is different. Just a week into the year, I started getting invites to press conferences and preview screeners for upcoming tv series and films. It was a trickle at first, but it’s steadily picking up speed and volume, and I’m doing my best to cover what I think is interesting.
That means there will be a little change to these updates. First of all, instead of a bi-weekly update, going forward, it will be monthly.
Next, I will focus on the press events and screeners, to get the freshest content possible, but once in a while, I will try to fit in more personal articles.
So expect the next The Bull Sheet as a monthly edition at the end of April.
Let’s see what else is going on.
Status on articles
The last couple of weeks have been something of a tonal whiplash when it comes to what titles I’ve covered.
I started off with Philip Barantini’s excellent miniseries Adolescence, publishing both an in-depth review and a coverage of the recent Zoom conversation with writer and cast-member Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper, Ashley Walters, and Erin Doherty.
You can check out these two articles here:
Because after these two, it was straight over to my slightly off-kilter and hilarious review of Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White:
Next up, at least according to the plan, I’ll have a guest writer contributing an article celebrating this year’s big Oscar winner, Anora, with her Top 10 strippers in movies. This might be quite different than the usual articles you see here on The Bull’s Eye, and I can’t guarantee how family-friendly it will be either.
So another tonal whiplass there, in other words.
And that’s a wrap!
Stay tuned. Much more to come.
Until next time!
Looking forward!