Review: Dallas Buyers Club
Some films live in the head and some in the heart. “Dallas Buyers Club” does shuttle runs between the two. The head tells you that when a homophobic Texan asshole rides to the rescue of gay men...
Category: Arts & Literature
On the Under-rated Novelist Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson is, to my mind, one of the more undervalued writers of the last 25 years in English language fiction. Oh, sure, she has a big fan base in the UK in particular, and her books sell well,...
On Piers Morgan’s Transphobia
Janet Mock is one of the most visible, active, and outspoken women of colour in US media today. A former editor at People with a lengthy and impressive resume to her credit, she’s celebrating the...
Imported From Detroit: The Emergency Management of the American Dream
Another Super Bowl has come and gone and with it, the new staple of Super Bowl based commercials: the “Imported from Detroit” Chrysler commercials. Starting in 2011 with a highly successful...
Fresh Romance: China’s New Dating Show “If You Are the One”
I have never been one for dating shows, but I do not seem to be able to stop watching China’s extremely popular If You Are the One. I am hardly alone in this amongst Australians, which is unusual...
The Best Bit of the Game? The 2014 Super Bowl ads
With the biggest sporting event in the US comes, of course, the biggest advertising event in an already ad-driven society. As US companies vie for attention in some of the most expensive advertising...
Too Costly: The Right-wing Attack on Australia’s ABC
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the country’s major public broadcaster, was on Wednesday accused by Prime Minister Tony Abbott of taking ‘everyone’s side but Australia’s’ due...
No Cheap Shots: HBO’s Looking
HBO’s new programme Looking seems to be attracting rather polarised responses: some are hailing it as refreshingly true to the lives of gay men in their 30s and 40s, while others are complaining...
Review: The Good Mother Myth
The persistent myth of the perfect mother is a narrative that shapes and limits women's lives even as family structures and women's choices expand and change in the new millennium. Developing ways to...
Shia LaBeouf’s Bogus Journey: Is It ‘Art’?
Can you deflect criticism for plagiarism and ill-thought out Twitter escapades by announcing that your actions were really "performance art" all along? Actor Shia LaBeouf recently pulled, or...