Oh, please.
What it feels like for a girl
The is the most glorious and realistic representation of what it feels like to be a sixteen-year-old girl with friends that I’ve ever seen in a movie.
The film is Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood. The actors were cast from street auditions.
You need to watch it immediately. If not before.
Jack Warner: Baggy Trousers, Dirty Shirt…
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Here’s former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner signing in at Arouca Police Station, as per the terms of his bail.
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Leicester City FC: Paying For Sex
Many see football and feminism as mutually exclusive interests, but as someone who writes about both, I can confirm they cross paths more frequently than you might suspect.
And certainly more than either would like.
Mad Max: Fury Road (AKA Wacky Races for the Xbox Generation)
Tom Hardy has got a hand fork stuck to his face.
I realise it’s been an awfully long time since I’ve been to the cinema to see a mainstream action film (yes, I’m a movie snob, but in my defence I have ‘fessed up to that particular corner of wankery in previous posts) and I fully expected to have missed some developments, but seriously.
Is this a thing now?
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‘Drain the Titanic’: A Sentimental Journey Through The Darkest Depths
I was obsessed with the Titanic when I was a kid.
I had a hardback book about it, passages of which I could recite verbatim, and a National Geographic video of Robert Ballard’s 1985 expedition to locate the wreck, which I watched until the modern day footage was as grainy as the images they took from the bottom of the Atlantic.
Suffice to say, after the novelty of a seven-year-old babbling on about impact zones, deep sea pressure changes and steel corrosion had worn off, my parents started locking me in my bedroom when we had guests.
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Big Brother: The Young & the Desperate
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As bad habits go, writing about appalling television sits on the social niceties scale alongside blowing one’s nose on the curtains.
Not only does the act provoke outrage and derision at the time, but everyone feels inexplicably dirty and wrong for a long time afterwards.
Hideo Kojima: The word you’re clumsily grabbing for is “Tits”
Those ‘soft materials’ are located in and around the breast area, in case you’re failing to keep up.
Unlike Metal Gear Solid character Quiet’s boobs on this soon to be released ‘action’ figure.
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UK Politics: In Profile
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White? Middle class? Worried about the impact of diversity in the UK?
Fearful that British culture is being diluted by immigration?
Hey Jeremy! What are you rebelling against?
So Jeremy Clarkson is in trouble again.
The BBC’s swaggering, denim disturbing cash cow has been suspended from Top Gear, pending an inquiry into allegations that he “punched a producer”. Clarkson, whose list of offences during his tenure on the show is almost as long as the Lap Time leaderboard, was on his last warning after footage of him reciting a racially offensive verson of a nursery rhyme was released into the public domain.
At the time of writing, 241,030 people have signed a petition demanding his reinstatement.
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