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

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...

The veil.  A politically loaded symbol.  It carries all sorts of old semiotic baggage, of course.  Weddings.  Widowhood.  Ladies in Conan Do...

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

The Doctor, the Brigadier, some scientists and a Ministry bureaucrat have ventured inside Axos, a living ship that has just landed on Earth....

TW Adelaide screams at the sight of Palmerdale's dead body. Leela slaps her across the face, silencing her. This is horrible.  It...

Warning: Triggers and Spoilers.  And waffle. Sex & Monsters In Prometheus , the Engineers are ancient Titans who created humanity....

Imperialism lies not just in the physical violence of invasion, domination, exploitation and subjugation, but also in the cultural violence ...