British writer and journalist.
The ticklish, sexy wickedness of ‘Saltburn’ Not many films manage to reinvent sex, or even just find fresh, powerful ways of representing it, especially in our jaded, online, perma-gaped age. (Or is that just me?) And if you’d told me last year that it would be a British film – one set… Read More »Between Laughter & Shudder
Genetics, same-sexing and the macho appeal of risk-taking Is male bisexuality related to a taste for risk-taking? A recent genetic study suggests that it may be, in part. Using the UK’s Biobank DNA database of half a million people, a research team published a paper which claimed genes that are implicated in… Read More »The Butchness of Bitchness
A forensic examination of the current state of male objectification I’ve not watched The Bear. Or the US version of Shameless. Hence, I’ve been semi-bemused for some time by social media pushing semi-naked photos of the Brooklyn born actor Jeremy Allen White, 32, down my throat. I don’t know anything about his… Read More »Jeremy Allen Tighty-Whities
Admiring the dystopian screwball romcom ‘Upload’ The future is always about the present, but the present can also be about the future. If it’s darkly funny enough. I recently finished three seasons of Upload, on Amazon Prime Video. Created, directed and lead-written by Greg Daniels, former The Simpsons writer and adapter of the US… Read More »A Well-Rounded Future
The thwarted daddy-love – and missing mommy – behind the pump-action hero I’m not a Sylvester Stallone fan. In fact, I couldn’t bear him back in the day. I spent much of the eighties sniffily ignoring his smash-hit movies and hence missed him single-handedly re-fighting the Vietnam War, with big… Read More »Home Stallone