Further to some objections I've had to my description of Mad Max: Fury Road as having reasonably good gender politics.  Trigger and Spo...

Spoilers & Triggers So, Sansa and Ramsey. Well, it was totally necessary because it shows rape is bad, which we didn’t already know...

Shabcast 3 was supposed to be the second part of my discussion with Josh Marsfelder .  ( Here 's part 1 of that discussion.)  But events...

Triggers Apparently, they've found out who Jack the Ripper was.  Maybe .  At least, so says the Daily Mail , and a bloke who's wr...

Spoilers for Game of Thrones ... if the writers haven't already spoiled it enough.   Aside from being just horribly and needlessly m...

Sexist image alert. Dom Kelly brought this to my attention, with his pithier comment: "*vomits*" Okay, let's examine t...

"Not so much of that oatmeal, girl," says Meg to one of the kitchen drudges, "It's only pikemen we're feeding, not ho...

Capaldi.  Wow.  I'd have put money on it being some new variation on the Tenant/Smith entity.  A young relative unknown with male model ...

Trigger warning / Spoiler Warning Just watched Peter Strickland's amazing film Berberian Sound Studio.  It stars Toby Jones as Gilde...

A very good overview of the squalid pass to which Moffat has brought the show in its 50th anniversary year, with special attention paid to t...