In the recent revelations regarding harassment and abuse in the Western film industry, there are two voices holding undercurrent. One which speaks of “surprise” at the events, bordering on all-out disbelief. Then there’s the other which says, “Well, duh - it’s a capitalist, male-dominated industry. Of course these things are happening.” One figure who [...]
If you have 10 minutes and want to be quietly infuriated by the extreme lack of social progress in 2018, then take a look at the BBC’s latest short: Leading Lady Parts. Taking a darkly comic look at the prejudices that ooze out of Hollywood and corrupt the Silver Screen, this female-led production wants [...]
Did you know, if you Google ‘why do we romanticise Paris?’, that the most common answer is ‘because you haven’t been there’ (I assume that response is given with a classically chic Parisian eye-roll of disdain). Is it really our fault, though? Can we be blamed for thinking that that small European city could [...]
Making a Murderer, Evil Genius, Casting Jon Benet, and now The Staircase – why do we love watching violent, terrible crimes unfold before our eyes while we’re safe in our living rooms? The 2004 French miniseries has just been released across Netflix and we can’t get enough; these sixty minute glimpses into the 2001 [...]
I have a friend from Canvey Island, who once convinced me that Dame Judi Dench grew up there too. Maybe I am particularly gullible (I did check Dench’s Wikipedia page, to confirm whether it was true), but to me it just didn’t seem entirely out of the realms of possibility. Fun fact: she was [...]
