Best Friends Forever review: the end of the world as women see it
Smartly stylish, refracting familiar fictional events and themes through a little-used cinematic prism: that of women’s perspectives.
Year: 2013
you think Hollywood movies are bland now?
They’re about to get a lot blander in order to appeal to the burgeoning Chinese market.
Blancanieves review: silent style
A valentine to early filmmaking, this silent-movie pastiche is gorgeous, lush, and bursting with passion. It presents a familiar fairy tale with a wondrous air of freshness and newfound intimacy.
Cinema du Sanity: the summer tentpoles issue
R.I.P.D.: How Hollywood sells us the same flicks over and over again. The New Grizzled Action Hero (same as the old grizzled action hero). Special Report: Tentpoles — how putting all your eggs in one basket become “good business”…
Doctor Who thing: the Doctor goes a-Viking in Dark Horizons by Jenny T. Colgan
If you wish the new Doctor Who were more like the old Doctor Who, this is an adventure for you.
Lovelace trailer: not merely Deep Throat
I’m a bit wary of how the porn aspect will be handled. Not glamorous, please!
English school summer fete photo of the day: the loneliness of the Splat the Rat girl
I confess I never understood how Splat the Rat was played.
Student Services (Mes chères études) review: naked ambition
Well-acted but unsurprising, and far more sad than it is scandalous.
Despicable Me 2 dropped almost *74 percent* in its second weekend in the UK
Maybe audiences are agreeing with my take on the film as pretty despicable itself…
“were Paleolithic cave painters high on psychedelic drugs?”
I’m fascinated by cave paintings and the earliest works of art humans have created, so this intrigues me hugely.
