Why Aren’t People Talking About This Gender Expression Arc In Furiosa?
(Slight spoilers for Furiosa). An underrated henchperson of the Mad Max universe is Mr Norton from the latest and hopefully not last film, Furiosa. Played by Elsa Pataky, we first see Norton in the chopper fight, where she is wearing a dress and is very much coded as backseat-of-the-chopper gal. But when they’re inducted into […]
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So I snooped about the Freemason’s Hall my job-hunting course is taking place in during lunch break. Photos of His Majesty everywhere and lots of homemade heraldry; it’s basically Dungeons & Dragons for businessmen desperate to be part of the Establishment. I got discovered by one of the staff who told me I couldn’t venture […]
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Umbrellas
Went to see Renoir’s Umbrellas at New Walk Museum today. The first thing that struck me is the young woman has forgotten to bring her brolly. The way she looks at you it’s like she’s hoping you’ll let her hide under yours. I love the way she and the man are very detailed but the […]
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Fantasy And Vulgarity
This was an article I wrote for Risingshadow.com back in ’22 when Pennyblade debuted. I think it still holds true today given the average fantasy reader, much as I love them, can be surprisingly conservative in an unexamined sort of way. Including the progressive ones. My upcoming novel, Pennyblade, has been getting mixed reviews in that […]
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What I’m Watching: Freaked (1993)
Bill & Ted made another movie and almost no one saw it. FREAKED (1993) was the brainchild of Alex Winter (Bill!), a full throttle FX-laden belly laugh comedy in which a former child star agrees to promote a toxic fertiliser and ends up mutated with a whole bunch of mutants, including Keanu Reeves (Ted!) as […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: Freaked (1993)"What I’ve Been Watching: G.I. Samurai
Just watched G.I. Samurai (1979) in which a squadron of modern soldiers end up Japan’s Warring States period. It’s like they took every Tokyo schoolboy’s playground game and filmed it with thousands of extras. There’s something exhilarating in watching a tank blow up waves of medieval soldiers (who just keep on coming!), especially from the […]
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