Inside Llewyn Davis review: trying of the human spirit
Hilarious in the Coens’ weird, askew way, but also absolutely crushing. This movie breaks my heart in a hundred different ways.
Month: January 2014
Doctor Who thing: this is how mainstream Doctor Who has gotten in the US
It can now serve as an unfunny punchline in an unfunny daily newspaper comic strip.
Blood Ties trailer: should I be depressed, or optimistic?
Great cast, but maybe it’s the same-old sameness that’s keep this from getting a major release? Could that be a reason to hope?
Amsterdam photo of the day: punk candy
Candy creates a stylish 1970s look in a shop window.
Gone Too Far! review (London Film Festival)
Something like a Shakespearean comedy, full of highly amusing, sharply drawn characters…
Doctor Who thing: the Doctor gets his own Little Golden Book
Not actually. It’s part of an art exhibition in California.
Vampire Academy trailer: I am in the wrong business
I should have been spending the last 16 years writing young adult fantasy novels set at a school for supernatural beings who live secretly among us muggles.
Amsterdam photo of the day: love locks
In Amsterdam, as in other cities around the world, people are leaving padlocks as love tokens on bridges.
We Are the Best! (Vi är bäst!) movie review (LOCO London Comedy Film Festival)
An exuberant rock ’n’ roll comedy in which three of the most memorable movie teens ever embrace their adolescent angst and give it screaming voice.
Matterhorn review (LOCO London Comedy Film Festival)
It had me confounded, in the most delightful way, and left me with a big stupid grin on my face and tears in my eyes.
