'Pop culture was in art / now art's in pop culture / in me' - Lady Gaga, Applause 'When it comes to character in general, I don't think any of us are nice. I just don't know anyone nice. Not anyone I know well. I don't think I'm nice.' - Emerald Fennell, Vanity Fair Emerald Fennell is trying to kill you. She is coming to your home to wrench all that you love from your quivering hands, to mash it amongst her sick, perfect teeth. She is unsuitable, lacks tact, stood astride the Yorkshire moors with a lighter in one hand and petrol in another, here to burn everything around her, melting culture into nothing. The classics will never be the same again. Emerald Fennell is a mean director who has come to ruin everything. Film criticism has never been more personalised and more reliant on the sway of internet discourse than it is right now. At the same time, there is a real struggle to place modern cinema within an artistic context. Our grasp of genre and s...