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J.G. Ballard: Kingdom Come

Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags , , , , , , on June 14, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle

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I thought it was time to pay him a visit and see if he could freak me out like he used to.

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J.G. Ballard: Kingdom Come

Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 5, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle

I love J.G. Ballard.

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Pussytown: Denis Villeneuve punks out on Blade Runner 2049

Posted in Film, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle

‘You’ll love the new Blade Runner – unless you’re a woman.’

  • Sara Stewart, New York Post, Oct 4, 2017

There was much ‘feminist’ criticism of Blade Runner 2049. I found it almost as astonishing as the pissweak rejoinder from its director, Denis Villeneuve in Vanity Fair, November 25, 2017:

“Blade Runner is not about tomorrow; it’s about today. And I’m sorry, but the world is not kind on women.”

My question is: what the fuck kind of film did Sara watch? And why doesn’t Villeneuve have the balls to stand up and defend the film he made? 

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The Magic Mountain

Posted in Reading with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle

The internet is like having a giant bilge pipe mounted above the armchair in your lounge room with all kinds of garbage gushing out of it. There is hardly a moment to take stock and discriminate amongst the torrent of what’s raining down upon you.

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