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This week (December 3rd) marked the 50th birthday of actor Darryl Hannah , who among many other roles played the replicant Pris in Ridley Scott 's 1982 future noir movie, Blade Runner. Pris is a "basic pleasure model", designed as, essentially, a robot prostitute for the Off-World colonies. Cursed with a four year lifespan, and born on Valentine's Day, just a few years before the movie takes place. Memorably, she disguises herself as a doll - spraying raccoon make-up markings across her eyes, veiling her face and sitting very, very still - before launching herself at Harrison Ford 's replicant-hunter and clamping her thighs around his neck.  This photo is from a series of portraits by Dr Will Brooker , as a tribute to Pris' 2019 style. The model is Laura-Jade .  Happy birthday, Ms Hannah.

"Well, you built up a world of magic," Hayley Williams taunts, halfway though the Paramore track "Brick By Boring Brick", "because your real life is tragic." If it's a dig at fans of Stephenie Meyer 's supernatural romance saga, Twilight , it's a particularly snide one - as Paramore contributed two tracks to the movie soundtrack. But it hits hard and hurts, like a bitchy heel-stamp, because it fits the stereotype.The Twilight fan of popular caricature has graduated from Harry Potter's Hogwarts only to mope around magic college, mooning over pale vampires and buff werewolves. The Twilight franchise is the cultural equivalent of an emo teenager's bedroom, with all its melancholy self-indulgence and its unattainable pin-ups. More specifically, it's a teenage girl's bedroom. Twilight 's protagonist, Bella Swan, is effectively a blank, a screen for the viewer to protect herself onto and into, and be faced with the ...

Eyewear   is pleased to feature the second of a series of Batgirl portraits from the film academic and photographer   Dr Will Brooker , of Kingston University. What next?  And why that cheek-smudge?