Please, Please, Please Father: Catholic Repression and Irish Boy Obsession
These men are vulnerable, honest, and embarrassed. Hot, hot, and hot. We want them to be a little nervous, a little objectified. They don’t want us looking at them! It’s fun, right? And really, after all the money for acting school or the Trinity College drama course, surely, they should’ve expected this?
What we cannot see, the camera can
Our eyes can only see so much, and they see cities very poorly.
The Future is in Love with the Past
In the mystical worlds of science fiction, the past may be our only tool for understanding the future.
Murky waters, murky pasts: the dark personal history of an Australian icon
The lives of these men are certainly more interesting than the movie they inspired, and perhaps a testament to the capacity for the Australian outback to swallow complicated figures whole.
Love unscripted: The culture industry’s romantic reel dance
Business is business, what else are you supposed to do?
Heavenly bodies descending
Many things change across time; many things remain stagnant. Our angels do both.
Artificial stupidity
Humans are smart. Unfortunately, humans are also annoying, trite, boring, unimaginative, clichéd, derivative, etc, etc, etc. AI seemingly thrives off all of these worst aspects.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Blue Jean
Oakley’s directing is subtle and effective, with clever use of sound and lighting to contrast the two major settings at Jean’s school and the nightclub, which are the symbolic fronts of the heteronormative and queer environments that she arbitrates between.
No one, not a single soul, is still mad about Tropic Thunder
After all, if there’s one thing that the left loves to do, it’s making sure that no one is allowed to enjoy a film from 15 years ago.
Drastic times call for Jurassic measures: reversing extinction with science
No other life form has the capacity to end, preserve, or resurrect a species. We have a troubling lack of foresight when it comes to this intervention.