“Don’t you think maybe they are the same thing? Love and attention?” In 2017 our screens were blessed with Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. The film follows a young girl, self-named Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), at the end of her time in high school as she navigates the next stage of her life. Lady Bird is […]
Last week actor Penn Badgley opened a Pandora’s Box of sex-negative film discourse, undoubtedly linked to a wider resurgence of moral puritanism. His comments, mostly relegated to personal musings on performed intimacy and fidelity, are hardly as concerning as the subsequent eruption of the inevitable twitter-based ‘discussion’ on the place of sex in film. The […]