Jane Fae is a feminist, journalist, campaigner on political and sexual liberty who also knows a bit about IT, the law and policing. Fae writes extensively about censorship both online and in more traditional media, including film and literature.
Her most recent book, Taming The Beast, provides an in-depth analysis of legislative and regulatory responses to concerns over online pornography and sexualisation. Not a fan of porn, she nonetheless remains a significant sceptic when it comes to recent initiatives for policing such material. It is her considered view that many of these have failed utterly in the stated objectives of controlling the spread of material deemed undesirable, while simultaneously having the all too foreseeable consequence of damaging individual liberties in the UK.
When it comes to film, Fae is an enthusiastic, if untutored watcher. Her over-riding concern in this respect is that a British obsession with protecting audiences from “smut” means that censorship is applied in an increasingly irregular fashion, with much relatively innocuous sexual content chopped, while far more damaging material, including violence and violence against women is merely normalised.
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The film soundtrack contributes neatly to the sense of alienation; of setting apart from the hearing world, with background track alternating conventional melody with something far more ominous.
A detective with hearing loss and a Deaf witness to a murder must lean on each other to outsmart killers they can't hear coming when cornered in an abandoned apartment block.
Exposé there is, albeit not quite the way you might expect. At its core, however, are some much more interesting questions.
Posing as the granddaughter of a private extended care home patient, an investigative journalist uncovers a culture of abuse and corruption at the facility.
A crisp, downbeat, clever exploration of the issues, combined with a whodunnit.
In the aftermath of President Macron's U-turn on a glyphosate ban, the stories of lawyer Patrick, victim France and lobbyist Mathias intertwine when the wife of a farmer dead from cancer commits a terrible act of protest.
A beautifully drawn anime featuring teenage love, angst and manga.
Kaoru Tono heard a rumour: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you find it, walk through and you'll find your heart's desire on the other side...in exchange for years of your own life
With two locations acting as stage for two very different types of action, the film could easily have fractured. It doesn’t.
After the courthouse is hijacked by the brother of a man she has just sentenced sentenced, a judge must rely on her strength and skills to find a way to end the standoff, save the hostages, and make her escape.
Where narrative fails, look for symbolism; and there are symbols aplenty. It’s just not clear that they mean anything coherent.
It's a distant future, on a savage planet, where only women can survive. The lonely teenager Roxy frees a criminal buried in the sand. Once freed, the woman, who goes by the name of Kate Bush, starts spreading fear and death again.
