Broken City (review)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…
Year: 2013
The Wee Man (review)
An ugly portrait of notorious Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris that paints him as nearly noble…
Doctor Who thing of the day: TARDIS cookies
Daniel shared these yum-yums with me. Well, he shared the photo, not the actual cookies, alas…
Parker (trailer)
Oh, look: Jason Statham has a new movie. Or maybe it’s an old one. I can’t tell.
question of the day: How can we update archetypal stories and characters (such as Sherlock Holmes) to be more gender equitable?
Are there cases where it wouldn’t make the most sense to leave an entire story intact and simply change the protagonist’s gender? Would a better updating be retelling classic stories from the perspective of female characters who would have been on the periphery?
London photo of the day: skyline pileup
Though this looks like some little kid’s idea of a city skyline, this is a real view from Thameside near London Bridge station.
the audacity of Lena Dunham (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
why you need Movie Cheat Sheet (especially if you’re not a film geek)
Why haven’t you subscribed to the Movie Cheat Sheets yet? Perhaps you don’t realize what you’re missing…
Barbara (review)
An odd mutedness and puzzling lack of urgency frustrate the mood of Orwellian horror…
The Impossible (review)
It’s a disaster movie, but not as we know it…
