Private Lives: An iced cocktail of a play that goes down a treat
Private Lives, Noël Coward’s delightfully outrageous comedy, was first performed in the year succeeding the Wall Street Crash when the…
Bombshell – fox in the #MeToo hen house
There’s an irony of a proto-MeToo movement taking place in the halls of the fiercely conservative Fox News’ offices in…
My 4 (very long) days of online dating
Illustration by Colette Fogarty Despite having heard a number of horror stories over the years, last week I decided to…
The Beaver’s sex playlist: bangity bang
Illustration by Raphaelle Camarcat I Said-a-Bang, Bang, Bangity Bang, I Said-a-Bang Bang Bangity Bang DISCLAIMER: Although some songs may appear…
Talk To Her (2003) and the media’s dangerous sexualisation of victims
Almodóvar’s film Hablé con Ella (Talk to Her, 2003) aestheticizes the female body, masking sexual violence in ways that are…
Sex Education Season 2 – a letdown expected for a first-timer, not a second
Sex Education season one was pretty great. I remember it being good-looking, sexy, cool, aware, and honest, whilst, yes, giving…
Sex does not thrive on monotony: re-visiting Anais Nin on her 117th birthday
Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it…
Call Me When You Get This: In conversation with Sebastian Mullen
Call Me When You Get This premiered on the 31st of January 2020. Second-year IR student Sebastian Mullen wrote, starred…
Just Mercy – redemption, justice, and more besides ★★★
Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx star in this refined, fresh, yet emotionally bruising interpretation of the relationship between lawyer…
The Welkin – 12 angry women ★★★★
Some argue that current culture is plagued with a lack of originality: the reproduction of eighties fashion; the deluge of…
