Transformers first published by EyeForFilm “Cool, mum!” says the little boy in the passenger seat of a car as above him two towering robots fight each other, in the process destroying anything (vehicles, pylons, the freeway itself) that gets in their way. The mother, needless to say, looks less pleased.Little boys are certainly one target…
Black and Blue first published by Sight & Sound, December 2019 Review: Deon Taylor’s Black and Blue begins with a black woman in a hoodie jogging along the street. A police car pulls her over, its front tyre splashing her with water from a puddle. Two aggressive white male officers get out, one pushing her…
First published by Little White Lies, as part of a longer contributors’ section on homoeroticism in film Much ink has already been spilt on the polyethnic world in which the Fast and Furious franchise unfolds. The prologue to the first sequel, John Singleton’s 2 Fast 2 Furious, illustrates this in microcosm, as whiter-than-white Brian O’Conner…