A Touch of Sin movie review: people’s uprising
It’s banned in China for its savage criticism of that nation’s economic and social policies. But its horrors look awfully familiar to us in the West, too.
Year: 2014
London photo: dining room and garden
Dusk outside the Maynard Arms in Crouch End, North London, one of my favorite pubs.
In Secret movie review: do you promise not to tell?
If O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe collaborated on a love story, it might look something like this juicy bit of ironic gothic romance.
Touchy Feely rating: green light
Gentle dramedy about a massage therapist who suddenly can’t stand to touch anyone… and about how we all need more care and attention than we get.
Only Lovers Left Alive movie review: full-blooded
I want to crawl inside this movie and curl up in its lap and stay there forever. This movie is so languid and so uncoerced. I want to keep it a secret and let everyone know about it at the same time.
London is safe from Godzilla (for now)
But there’s always the sequel…
London photo: a gathering of mutants
Mutants gathering in Leicester Square yesterday afternoon, preparing to honor X-Men: Days of Future Past at its premiere last night.
London photo: geeksplosion in Leicester Square
Breaking down the bling from last night’s Godzilla premiere while putting up the decorations for tonight’s “blue carpet” for X-Men: Days of Future Past…
Game of Thrones S04 E06: “The Laws of Gods and Men” (oh crap oh crap oh crap)
This episode has exhausted me.
Godzilla movie review: sympathy for Gojira
Elegantly updates the King of All Monsters for the 21st century… but Hollywood’s tedious myopia means the movie as a whole isn’t quite so beautiful.
