It recently came to my attention that the Pussycat Dolls have a new song out. Ok I might as well say it. I watched T4. Confession over. Now, interested as I am in the issues behind gender inequality and female empowerment in the workplace, I was pretty intrigued by the lyrics of the ridiculously catchy [...]
Archive for September, 2008
When I grow up I wanna be
Posted in Listening, Thinking, tagged female chauvinist pigs, pussycat dolls, raunch culture, when i grow up on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Trailer of the Week: Waltz with Bashir
Posted in Watching, tagged ari folman, max richter, trailer of the week, waltz with bashir on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greeted with a standing ovation at this year’s Cannes, at once poetic and horrifying, Waltz with Bashir depicts the true-life experience of its director, Israeli documentary maker Ari Folman, as a young soldier during the first Lebanon war of 1982. Four years in the making, the animated documentary examines the trauma of war through the [...]
Dahlia Lithwick on Paul Newman
Posted in Reading, tagged dahlia lithwick and paul newman, paul newman obituary, slate on September 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just a heads-up: there’s a really beautiful little article on the late Paul Newman in today’s Slate. Read it here.
Trailer of the Week: Synecdoche, New York
Posted in Watching, tagged charlie kaufman, philip seymour hoffman, synecdoche new york, trailer of the week on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When you want a dose of the strange, go to Charlie Kaufman. His scripts for Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, and my personal favourite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, all play at the puckered seam where the unconscious meets the real; where unspeakable desires and spoken lies get mixed up. His characters -subtle [...]
Trailer of the Week: Milk
Posted in Watching, tagged harvey milk, milk poster, oscars, sean penn, trailer of the week on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes movies sound Oscar-worthy even before you see them. The Academy likes biopics, unconventional heroes, historical drama and political martyrs. Somewhat like Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982) Milk ticks all those boxes. And what’s more, it stars the always-exceptional Sean Penn: three times Oscar-nominee (Dead Man Walking; Sweet and Lowdown; I Am Sam) and Best Actor [...]
God on Trial
Posted in Watching, tagged bbc drama, god on trial, rupert graves on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is the rallying cry of atheists and a familiar challenge to the faithful. If there is a God, why does he allow such terrible suffering? The BBC’s single episode drama, God on Trial, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, grapples compellingly for 85 minutes with this question. Many of us will spend a lifetime wondering, [...]
Darling and the Politics of Truth
Posted in Thinking, tagged alistair darling and decca aitkenhead, alistair darling guardian on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Guardian‘s Decca Aitkenhead had an excellent interview with Chancellor Alistair Darling in Saturday’s Weekend, but with typical expediency, the newsdesk seemingly cut and pasted a few quotes powerfully adrift from their grounding context, added some scaremongering analysis and, wow, found itself with a front page story that was then barked all over the news [...]
