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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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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)

Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 3, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle

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12: The Heart of the Problem

“I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but

I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it

I had hoped you’d see my face and that you’d be reminded

That for me, it isn’t over…”

-Adele,

Someone Like You

I’ve been driving around in the yellow Monaro with Adele blaring from the stereo (not very rock and roll). Continue reading →

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