Allow me to add two hours to your life. Above are the only two good bits from Thor: Love & Thunder. You’re welcome. Chris Hemsworth seems to have been styled, airbrushed, lit – and restrained in gold chains – by Pierre… Read More »Thor Blimey
Mark Simpson looks at the British ritual of stripping off on the hallowed turf (Independent on Sunday, July 1996) Melissa Johnson’s bra-less gallop across Wimbledon’s Centre Court this week in a skimpy pinny and lovely smile proved to be a… Read More »Streaking: The Naked Truth
Mark Simpson interviews Neil LaBute about his film ‘In the Company of Men’ – twenty years before ‘toxic masculinity’ went ‘hegemonic’ (Originally appeared in Attitude, 1998) Women are made of sugar and spice. While men are made from slugs and… Read More »Men Make Terrible Company – Neil LaBute interview
Mark Simpson on how we’re all living in Nick Kamen’s Launderette now Another fondly remembered part of the 1980s finished its last cycle last week. Nick Kamen, real name Ivor Neville Kamen, the Essex-born much-gasped-over star of the famous 1985… Read More »Jeans-Genie – The Lecherous Legacy of Those 80s Levi’s Ads
Mark Simpson checks out The Voyeur’s Motel I recently watched a documentary on Netflix. Which is what I seem to mostly do, TV-wise, these days – being middle-aged and male. This one wasn’t about Hitler, or unsolved grisly murders, or… Read More »Welcome to the Hotel Scopophilia
My (highly attenuated) attention was recently directed to an LWT doc from 1981 available on YouTube . It compares the pre-war, pre-gay world of ‘sisters’ (‘musical’ friends you didn’t want to fuck) and ‘trade’ (‘normal’ working class ‘real’ men you… Read More »Back to the Future: Escaping Sexology