Feminism has achieved many things in the field of fashion. Unbound feet, uncrushed lungs and trousers, to name but a few. And yet, a fabric arrow pointing to our genitals is still a pleasure, nay honour, greatly denied to the sisterhood.
Frankly, a lot about fashion makes me want to pick up an elephant gun, strap on some ammo and blast all holy hell out of the surrounding landscape: harem pants, sexually abusive photographers, fur, unhealthily thin models, peep-toe boots, carbon-guzzling catwalk shows, the renaissance of 90s piano house and so on and so on. So [...]
First published by Little White Lies on 21st April 2010
Now flights are taking off, this seems a little irrelevant. But hey, what do I care?
As Jeff Goldblum once said, ‘A toast, to the end of the world.’
Well, okay, not the end of the world perhaps. But let’s be honest, as a planet we are staring [...]
A big golden camel of kneeling ash, sweeping across Northern Europe.
Nell Frizzell
So, according to a highly reputable and distinctly impartial English newspaper, Robert Pattinson is going to play Kurt Cobain in a new film.
Oh the horror! Oh the bitter cruelty! Oh the villainy! A famous young white man is chosen to play a famous young white man in a film about the life of famous young [...]
Lumea: the lighter way to enjoy pre-pubescent genitals.
On one hand, at least they are showing that this sort of instrument of unnecessary discomfort is used on people’s poor unsuspecting nadgers. And she looks like she’s about to fire a bolt gun directly into her pelvic bone.
On the other, I always think it’s a shame when [...]
As the proud owner of two X chromosomes, a set of ovaries and what the Goonies would no doubt call ‘norks’, it is difficult, not to say impossible, for me to ever truly experience men-only company. My presence makes a mockery of the very idea, which is where cinema comes in.
Films, such as Haim Tabakman’s [...]
“Boppin’ The Blues”, “Lonesome Town”, “Travelin’ Man” and “I Got A Feeling (Live)”? Who know Agatha Christie had such rock and roll taste in chapter names.
I can just imagine how this mystery plays out.
‘Travelin’ Man’ – A Bolivian scientist by the name of Querto turns up unexpectedly at the house of Lord Fossington-Thrip. That afternoon [...]
If you think that a film about two Jewish butchers who fall in love sounds all a bit My Beautiful Launderette with ringlets, then think again. Here is my review, as posted on Puremovies.co.uk
You might not necessarily assume that an Isreali film about forbidden gay love in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem would be [...]
“We are soldiers… from Argos”
You can say what you like, but since they got rid of Status Quo, Argos have certainly upped their advertising budget. Gods, flying horses, snake-headed demons, sweeping deserts, azure seas and even the odd human sacrifice; Clash of the Titans is a good old fashioned epic.
An epic in the Homerian sense [...]