London photo: scooting around Seven Dials
Some sort of Vespa club in action.
Month: March 2014
Veronica Mars review: fan service included
I’ve never seen the show that spawned it, but it was still exactly what I was expecting. I am neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed by it. I am whelmed.
Geography Club review: mapping the teen terror of being weird
A gentle high-school drama about how little courage it actually takes to break through adolescent panicky silence and embrace everyone’s differences.
London photo: abandoned burger
Somebody got really full really quick.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier review: politics in our peanut butter
Stuns me with its scathing commentary on the real world today, wrapped up in what is some of the most delicious, most comic-booky fantasy ever.
Divergent is a box office success: can there be any doubt that there is enormous hunger for stories about girls and women as heroes?
I’m sure Hollywood will find a way to spin the success of Divergent as something other than “Hey, movies about girls and women do make buckets of money!”
cool things you guys are up to: making a short film about a video rental store in 2014
Reader Patrick made a short documentary about his local video store, still operating in today’s unfriendly economic and entertainment environment…
cool things you guys are up to: building a balloon Jack and the Beanstalk
Reader and subscriber Lanna recently “spent [a week] in Rochester New York helping to build a a 5-story balloon beanstalk, just because!”
London photo: do you want a piece of cubism?
Somewhere in Spitalfields, I think…
Blood Ties review: same old New York groove
Excellent performances by Clive Owen and Billy Crudup can’t disguise the fact that there’s absolutely nothing here we haven’t seen too many times before.
