Rebellion (L’ordre et la morale) review
Sporadically exciting French action drama about a 1988 hostage crisis drags more often than it should.
Year: 2013
A Hijacking (Kapringen) mini review
Harrowing drama of modern-day piracy as a sort of illicit corporate takeover; riveting and exhausting.
Doctor Who thing: using the Doctor to explain death to a child
I might have something in my eye.
Riddick trailer: why won’t he just die already?
Here be dragons. If tradition holds true, ravaging alien monsters will be the most sympathetic characters here.
London photo of the day: East End street art 18
The signpost on the left gives you a sense of the scale of this.
Olympus Has Fallen mini review
A vile propagandistic action flick that shamelessly indulges fears of terrorism while also failing on a basic narrative level.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist mini review
A provocative, ambitious drama about the unconsidered assumptions that power our cultures, for good or ill.
The Great Gatsby mini review
Alternately intriguing and infuriating: it’s very like the sort of movie exuberantly excessive Gatsby himself might have made.
Monsters Wanted review: chasing a nightmare
A rare unromantic look at just how much labor (and risk) goes into a labor of love…
Doctor Who thing: how Matt Smith’s Doctor might have dressed
Matt Smith, charming as he may be, has never inspired me to say this before, but… I will be in my bunk.
