Gloria review: can you handle the truth?
A smart, incisive portrait of a woman who lives life on her own terms and doesn’t let herself get pushed around.
Month: January 2014
I, Frankenstein review: beware, for it is pointless
It’s alive! In a technical sense: images flicker on the screen, etc. But it is a soulless, unholy monstrosity. Behold: the movie without a protagonist!
Doctor Who thing: a last look round “Doctor Who and Me” at the National Media Museum
A wonderful collection of delightful stuff.
Winter’s Tale trailer: it’s fantasy, m’kay?
Hide the speculative stuff! Don’t call it science fiction or fantasy! It’s “magic realism.” It’s literary.
Amsterdam photo of the day: at the flower market
When you’re used to New York and London, you automatically expect everything to be huge. I was imagining a Fulton Fish Market of flowers.
That Awkward Moment review: I want a shower, I want to be hosed down
This is like the Mirror Universe, evil-goatee-wearing flip side of Don Jon, a pile of obnoxious, grossout junk.
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (86th Academy Awards) review
The French “Mr. Hublot” creates an utterly real yet completely fantastical world, a palpable steampunk environment of gorgeous mechanical loveliness.
Doctor Who thing: the brief moment late 80s/early 90s when print fanzines flourished
It was pre-Internet, but desktop publishing and cheap and readily accessible xeroxing made fan publishing easy(ish)…
The Fault in Our Stars trailer: I’m not seeing it
Half the Internet had an orgasm yesterday because this trailer was released, but I’m gonna have to wait before I can care.
Amsterdam photo of the day: sidewalk cafe at night
And it was cold, too, which is why no one was sitting outside.
