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Rated or Dated: Look Who’s Talking (1990)
Director Amy Heckerling is known for films centred on the female experience, but how feminist is a film about a woman narrated by an actual man-baby?…
1 year, 1 month ago
Lucky boys with Chloe Hadjimatheou
If an adult male grooms a teenage girl into a sexual relationship, we're increasingly likely to call it abuse. But reverse the sex of the perpetrator…
1 year, 1 month ago
Have Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman tried this?
Anyone who’s ever been anywhere near social media can attest to the somewhat loose definition of “self-care” adopted by society. Broadcasters Lauren …
1 year, 1 month ago
Sophie Gilbert on how pop culture turned women against themselves
In Girl On Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Sophie Gilbert underlines how popular…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rated or Dated: Leon (1995)
Once cool, now ick. That could describe so many things from 1995, but in this instance it's Luc Besson's thriller about a prepubescent girl and her a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Meeting history with Amy Ng
Two young women walk into a theatre in China in 1935 and so begins a relationship that spans a turbulent period of history and ends with the death of…
1 year, 2 months ago
Abigail Johnson on nineties nostalgia and millennium madness
Books are a bit like buses for author Abigail Johnson, who signed a two-book deal after taking a punt on a creative writing course during the pandemi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Outside The Box April 2025
There's a long weekend ahead and if you want to spend it watching telly, then you do you. Have some help choosing in the form of our monthly chat abo…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Bush Telegraph: Mon dieu! Did we say we liked dystopias?
Things are looking very worrying over in America, so of course we're talking about that. But we manage to get in a lot of other stuff too, including …
1 year, 2 months ago
Rated or Dated: American Psycho (2000)
Comedy? Horror? Satire? A full-length Huey Lewis and the News music video? There’s a lot going on in Mary Harron’s big screen adaptation of Bret East…
1 year, 2 months ago