With pornography designed to cater for every possible fetish now readily available at the click of a button for free online, Hollywood has turned away from sex almost completely. Aside from the Fifty Shades trilogy, sex is almost nowhere to be found in today's mainstream Hollywood productions. Back in the '90s, sex was everywhere in movies, from blockbusters like Basic Instinct and Disclosure (real life sex addict Michael Douglas always seemed to be present in these movies) to straight to…

Only the most wretched, or forgetful, of adults would envy teenagers their lot. Don’t you remember how bleak it all was, the amount of pretending and posturing required to just get by? Being a different person for your parents, your friends, your teachers; all this while trying to figure out for yourself who you actually were. That tremulous longing for something (anything, anything at all) to happen, along with the craven fear that there was worse to come. Yeah, you…

As early as its customary opening crawl, I began to have a bad feeling about Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In what plays like a dig at the current leader of the free world (who was pictured earlier this year watching Rogue One on Air Force One), the word 'RESISTANCE' appears in upper-case letters, an early worrying sign that real world, outside forces may be intruding on this most endearingly innocent of escapist worlds.

This is nothing new of course…