For Georgia Whitaker, home is where the heart is. For the past several days, I have been hiking my way through Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chilean Patagonia. My timing is not ideal—in April the ground is saturated with rainwater and ominous gray clouds hide what is normally an unobstructed [...]
Is Spring Breakers just trying to shock, or is there a deeper message somewhere within the colour and sound? Spring Breakers: Described by critics as Scarface meets Britney Spears. Also labeled as trashy MTV reality show turned art cinema. Intrigued? And if you’re not, well, then the overtly sexual and commercially viable female quartet including [...]
In the wake of Baroness Thatcher’s death, the debate about what she did for feminism; a cause which she was no open supporter of, has exploded Margaret Thatcher is arguably the most controversial and iconic Prime Minister in the history of British politics. Even apolitical people have an opinion, and she divided judgment like [...]
The recent case in Steubenville, Ohio reveals quite how far we still have to go on the public perception of rape and its victims Rape is arguably the most misunderstood of all crimes. It is a concept that the media continually fail to accurately report, and this is just one of the reasons why it [...]