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Part 1 Part 2   Part 3   Part 4   Part 5   Part 6  Repeating History In addition to the similarities between Northern Ireland and Chile, Good Vibrations and No were produced and released in the wake of political shifts to the right in the leadership of both governments. A coalition government led by the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron was established in the UK in 2010, replacing the Labour leadership held since 1997. In Chile also in 2010, the right-wing Sebastián Piñera was elected President, replacing the now dissolved Concertación, or Coalition of Parties for Democracy, voted in after the 1989 general election. While the Conservative government remains in power due to the UK’s firmer shift to the right after the 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections, Michelle Bachelet of the Chilean Socialist Party, was returned as President in 2014, only for the billionaire Pi ñera to be re-elected in 2018 (Chilean Presidents understandably canno...

I came away with mixed feelings after seeing Girls Trip (dir. Malcolm D. Lee, 2017) at the weekend. It was refreshing to see a movie featuring someone different to the usual gamut of white guys, and to see women being riotously funny. I usually don't enjoy gross-out humour, but in some set-pieces Girls Trip had me giggling behind my hand. More of that and the throwing of shade and the dance-offs with less of the needless schmaltz and conflicts and I would have enjoyed it much more. An aspect I couldn't overcome at all was the Sex and the City -level privilege of wealth oozing out of the film and most of its characters, even from Queen Latifah's character, Sasha, who is supposedly broke. During the film, I found myself thinking about Céline Sciamma's Bande de Filles/Girlhood (2014) and wishing I was re-watching that instead of a bunch of wealthy women getting away with violence because their statuses and bank balances and praying to baby Jesus could make it go away....