London photo: shill de France
Spectactors waiting along the race route are a captive audience to sell crap to. (No one was biting near me, though.)
Month: July 2014
Boyhood movie review: time in a cinematic bottle
An audacious coming-of-age tale unique in the history of cinema; deeply moving and beautifully authentic.
London photo: the other side of the Tour de France view
I bet that guy’s view of the Tour de France is incredible.
Snowpiercer movie review: hunger train
Hauntingly grim, full of appalling ironies and awful truths. This is most definitely not the feel-good movie of the summer.
London photo: irony at the Tour de France
No bikes allowed!
The State Within TV review: unknown knowns
A riveting BBC political thriller offering one of the most trenchant explorations yet of the sick symbiosis between big government and big business.
London photo: invasion of the Miffys
I, for one, welcome our adorable tiny cartoon rabbit overlords.
The Raid 2 movie rating: red light
Arthouse martial-arts action that’s incredibly dull even when it’s being pornographic about its extreme bloody violence.
Palo Alto movie review (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
A meditative contemplation of the boredom of overprivileged, under-aspiring, shallow, spoiled kids. As you’ve been dying to see.
London photo: Tour de France
I waited for two hours this afternoon — sometimes in the rain — and this was what it looked like when the cyclists finally zipped by.
