My first love was the best and worst thing to have happened to me to date.
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Love in Hollywood
Romantic comedies. Ah, the genre we all have a soft spot for. We will proudly watch the classic When Harry Met Sally or Notting Hill, shamelessly imitating the famous orgasm scene in the diner or silently miming to ourselves ‘I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy…asking him to love me’, before bursting into tears.…
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Fifty Shades Blander
The uninspiring, unimaginative and unsexy expectations audiences set following Fifty Shades of Grey have unsurprisingly been met in this second instalment to the Fifty Shades trilogy. James Foley’s Fifty Shades Darker is a continuation of the first film’s sketchy plotline which serves only to link the film’s underwhelming and forgettable sex scenes.
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Problems with The Oscars, vol. 88
Back in 2006, arthouse filmmaker David Lynch launched a typically left-field Oscar campaign for Laura Dern, the lead in his new release Inland Empire. Lynch camped out by the side of a Hollywood intersection with a live cow and a sign bearing the words: ‘WITHOUT CHEESE THERE WOULDN’T BE AN INLAND EMPIRE’. He would later…
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The people with chronic pain who fall through the cracks in the NHS
Imagine being in so much pain that you never left the house unless you had to. Now imagine you couldn’t make that pain go away. The charity Pain UK estimates that 14 million people in Britain are suffering from chronic pain, defined medically as pain persisting longer than three months. Others put that number much higher.…
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Anti-Trump Pro-Love: Women’s March in London
From Grosvenor to Trafalgar Square, a march against Trump, with an estimated 100,000 people in attendance, occurred in London yesterday. For a march against something, the atmosphere of love and hope in the crowd was particularly striking. Yes, they were against Trump – but it was not a march of despair. The weather mirrored the…
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