Another day watching Trump’s America unfold. A night and day spent watching white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK gather in the thousands to rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a location chosen by the alt-right because the city dared to condemn its Confederate roots. They came from all over the US and marched with torches–confidently yelling slurs and chants filled with vitriol, shouting about taking back THEIR America and getting what they’re entitled to. Echoing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” rhetoric again …
Category: Feminism
Given how news from France’s pre-eminent film festival comes at interested on-lookers both fast and furious over the Mediterranean fortnight, it may not be all that surprising that I missed out on the initial hubbub that bubbled out of a Cannes Mad Max: Fury Road Q&A involving the Toronto Star’s own movie critic, Peter Howell. Essentially Howell posed the following question to the film’s titular male star, Tom Hardy: “I’ll preface my remarks by saying that I have five sisters, a wife, a daughter, …