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

Well, it's basically a two-hour chase sequence with a few pauses... but yes, it's amazingly well done.  Old hand George Miller takes...

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...

Many people have already commented on the expansion of Clara's character in 'Deep Breath'.  I think there's something to th...

Another snippet looking for a home... The fembot is an expression of a patriarchal and misogynistic power fantasy.  The woman who is you...

The more I think about it, the more I think a humble, sympathetic, non-domineering, non-entryist engagement with the anti-oppression movemen...

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...

Rich, white, male kid.  Drunk driving.  Killed and maimed people.  Got off with probation because he suffers from "affluenza".  Es...

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

"I know it sounds mad," says Martha, "but when the Doctor became human, he took the alien part of himself and he stored it i...

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

Early morning in Britain. Shop-window dummies twitch, stand up and smash their way out into the high street.  They stalk past the shop log...

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