London photo: faded flags
Sun-faded flag bunting, probably left over from the Queen’s Jubilee, almost two years ago.
Year: 2014
London photo: get all the Tory scroungers out!
People in working-class Wood Green not happy about recent government money scandals.
Being Ginger review: caught redhaired
A smartly perceptive and very brave personal documentary diary of one man’s attempts to come to terms with being an oft-derided and bullied redhead.
Night Moves movie review (Birds Eye View Film Festival)
Kelly Reichardt cements her reputation as one of the most provocative American indie filmmakers with this quiet, tense thriller of morality and motive.
Swim Little Fish Swim review (Birds Eye View Film Festival)
It’s almost a little too precious to be taken as an honest exploration artistically genuine lives. Or else that’s where it finds a lost romance.
London photo: Jesus shouter
A street preacher shouts to a nonexistent congregation in Wood Green this past weekend.
Game of Thrones S04 E02: “The Lion and the Rose” holy crap
I kind of want to say, “You’re not reading that right , Grandpa.” Except OMFG, this is so much more awesome than I could ever have hoped for.
why movies like Under the Skin and Nymphomaniac are not feminist
These films act like what it means to be a woman is purely about sex and bodies, purely about interacting with men in no other way than a sexual one.
London photo: many tour buses
Along Piccadilly, near Green Park.
The Retrieval review: the emotional legacy of American slavery
Deceptively simple and deeply cutting. A remarkable little film, a marvel of American indie filmmaking and of stories typically overlooked.
