Picks from the 2018 Ax Wound Film Festival

To mark 10 years of Women in Horror Month (@WiHmonth), Steven Allison chooses his top 5 films from @AxWoundFilmFest 2018, an event which champions horror films made by women #AWFF #WiHM #WiHMX

The thing we might have missed in Marie Kondo’s Netflix series

While we all binged Marie Kondo’s Netflix series, Tidying Up, Fernanda Mathias had her mind on the other things the programme was showing us: that domestic sexism is still rife in 21st century America.

Cashing in on ‘wokeness’: Why the Gillette advert is just an advert

Gillette may have made waves with their latest marketing strategy, but is the advert really anything for people to get het up about?

How #metooIndia is confronting the ‘world’s most dangerous country for women’

The patriarchy that helped confirm Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US Supreme Court may reign strong worldwide. However, a second wave of the #metoo movement is helping to advance the discourse of women’s rights, this time in India. Steven Allison discusses.

Celebrities who used Halloween to make a statement

Halloween – the scariest time of the year. But it doesn’t have to be all blood, gore, flesh, and sex. Heidi Quill takes a look at the celebrities who are using their fame – and Halloween costumes – to shout about important issues.

#ustoo – it’s everyone’s problem

The world has been rocked over the past few weeks with the ongoing allegations of Harvey Weinstein’s outrageous sexual harassment towards members of the film community. Brave women, women who are often in the media spotlight, have broken their silence and supported one another as they speak out against the abusive, powerful, Hollywood figure. Another… Continue reading #ustoo – it’s everyone’s problem

The modern marketplace of ideas

In the current political landscape, no idea is more important than that of the “marketplace of ideas”. This concept, echoed in Al Gore’s wonderfully enlightened book Assault on Reason, is the idea that with a laissez-faire approach in the regulation of freedom of speech and expression, meaning with little interference from governments, ideas presented by… Continue reading The modern marketplace of ideas

The return of traditionalist cinema: Values, faith and dreaming

With the recent release of Hacksaw Ridge, the mighty comeback of Mel Gibson, a film that tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a soldier in WW2 who refused to kill, who deemed a coward was able to save 75 soldiers on the frontline and in turn became one of the most extraordinary human beings… Continue reading The return of traditionalist cinema: Values, faith and dreaming

Unpaid internships: “a scourge on social mobility”

In the later months of 2016, Conservative MP, Alec Shelbroke sponsored a piece of legislation that would ban unpaid internships in the country with the intention of advocating social mobility in the UK. The Tory, whilst speaking in Parliament, denounced the notion of unpaid internships saying that such a concept “should have no place in… Continue reading Unpaid internships: “a scourge on social mobility”