This was last Saturday night, an unusually warm and dry one for October, and this photo does not convey the insanity of the crowds. I may never go back to Leicester Square on a Saturday night again.
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Month: October 2014
The Babadook movie review: mother of nightmares
Genuinely horrific and deeply scary in a way that draws on the most primal of emotions. A horror flick with rare emotional and psychological resonance.
Citizenfour documentary review (London Film Festival)
Edward Snowden speaks. Buy a ticket to this film… and use your credit card, so the NSA knows you care about this stuff.
23 Blast movie review: do they play football in Heaven?
The clunky script and amateurish performances are not unexpected in the faith-based genre, but its dubious “inspiration” gives even diehard-atheist me pause.
London photo: “#SAVE KOBANE”
More new anti-ISIS graffiti spotted in Wood Green. (As also seen in yesterday’s photo.)
The balloon image is a separate, older work of graffiti that appeared a month or two ago; I’d photographed it, and it was in my queue of photos to post.
A Picture of You movie review: family secrets
There’s nothing forced or sentimental here, and more than a modicum of bleak humor, but as laid-back indies go, this one may be a tad too laid-back.
Serena movie review: logging for pulp
What starts out as solid romantic melodrama — almost Golden Age of Hollywood stuff — gets so crazy so fast in so many ways.
London photo: “STOP ISIS”
This graffiti appeared in Wood Green the other day.
Wood Green is, perhaps not coincidental to this, heavily immigrant, with many residents from the Middle East. There has been lots of public pushback — like from, say, imams and spokespeople from Muslim organizations — in the U.K. against Islamic radical fundamentalism, including ISIS/ISIL, and the radicalization of young British Muslims. So this could be part of that.
Listen Up Philip movie review (London Film Festival)
A celebration of male arrogance that pretends to be a condemnation. Because who wouldn’t love to spend 108 minutes with an insufferable egotistical “genius”?
London photo: Simon Pegg at London Film Festival
Simon Pegg on the red carpet at the London Film Festival on Saturday night for his new film Kill Me Three Times.
