Monday, 31 August 2020

Sects Education #6: The Children Act (2017)

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( Spoilers.You know the score. ) In The Children Act , Emma Thompson plays Mrs Justice Fiona Maye, a judge with a reputation for making deci...
Thursday, 20 August 2020

Room 207 Press Seminars #10: Your Move, Darwin – humanity, hope and meaning on the Planet of the Apes

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Some science fiction franchises are more evolved than others.  When Disney announced the acquisition of Fox, one of the big surprises was th...
Thursday, 13 August 2020

Room 207 Press Webinars #9: Sects Education: The Dark-Eyed Stepchildren of Mainstream Christianity

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If you've ever walked past the Jehovah's Witness stand, or closed the door on them, ot had a strangely intense conversation with a...
Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Cult Cinema #30: On the Pagan Village Conspiracy

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The Wicker Man (1973); Kill List (2011); Midsommar (2019) ( There will be spoilers, as ever. ) Before I even define what one is, I need to s...
Saturday, 1 August 2020

The Question in Bodies, Appendix: SexOD 2.0

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This essay was first published in 2016, and then abandoned, and then rewritten at a friend's request over a year later. I'm resurr...
Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Room 207 Press Webinars #8: Sex On-Demand – sex with robots in film and TV

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Ever since Fritz Lang made Metropolis in 1927, science fiction cinema has been the home of the fembot, the sexualised woman-machine who ful...
Friday, 17 July 2020

The Question in Bodies #21: Lectio Infernalis

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Possession (1981) (This, written in late 2018, is still, in my opinion, the single best piece of film writing I have ever produced. Some...