This hit the screens a couple of weeks ago in Britain, and I understand it just has just come out in the US. It has the distinction of being the first James Bond film I was actually excited to …

The interminable Simpsons repeats on some of my local channels recently worked their way round to the one where Bart gets a vision of the future where he’s a dropout with a pretend band, and Lisa is President. Anyway, …

**SPOILERS for Heroes season 3**

Heroes season 3 has just started in the UK (3 episodes in).  Purtek has written before about its issues with female characters in her articles Heroes: Do Better and Heroes Season 2: You can still …

Well sort of. The latest ad I’ve seen from the delightful studio of Burger King is for the so-called “polygameat” - a burger made up of more than one kind of meat - the ad can be seen …

A recent CSI Miami episode focussed on cyber-stalking. Briefly, a school swimming star (Candace Walker) is the subject of a website devoted to stalking and photographing her - consequently, she is being followed by dozens of amateur paparazzi …

One of my favourite TV historians is Bettany Hughes. But as a presenter, she gets hit from the opposite angle to actresses, being criticised for (what boils down to) looking too hot, and thus cheapening her subject in some …

I’ve posted before about how the writers of CSI: New York have handled stories involving Stella. The most recent episode I’ve seen, “The Thing About Heroes,” is another example - it finishes …

Purtek’s essay - http://thehathorlegacy.com/juxtapositions-in-scenes-of-sexual-violence/
- made me think of two CSI episodes, one Las Vegas and one New York, featuring sexualised attacks respectively on Catherine and Stella. But while Purtek’s post highlights scenes that are completely unalike, this one …

There’s this advert for MagnumEquador Dark - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zZuvAN7ORE.  A clearing in the jungle with dozens of women, together with a high priestess, conducting a ritual before an idol carved in the shape of a magnum; at …

I love watching deleted scenes, even for films I find disappointing. Apart from any other reason, at times, I come across a scene that would have improved the film dramatically had they been included: case in point, X-Men …