London photos: space-age toilets
At the BFI Southbank for its Days of Fear and Wonder…
Year: 2014
gentle reminder to please use Amazon/iTunes links here for your holiday shopping
It’s a painless way to help support what I do here. (This post is not behind the paywall.)
ads are gone again, probably for good
Unless someone offers to, I dunno, sponsor the site for a generous figure in exchange for showing some tasteful ads, I guess I’m done with advertising here.
more movies with girl and woman heroes will be good for boys, too
You think the near absence of girls and women as the protagonists of their own adventures is only a problem for girls and women? Think again.
London photo: public telephones no more
I’m sure the array of communication devices once here was quite splendid.
Horrible Bosses 2 movie review: the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad sequel
It’s not funny, only its villains speak truth, and its putative heroes are now the horrible bosses… though the movie doesn’t seem to realize that.
how movies fail girls and women (fans and filmmakers alike)
Girls and women love movies just as much as boys and men do. But it’s a love that gets thrown back in our faces by 95 percent of films.
London photo: archaeology of advertising (abstract)
I love how the layers of old ads on the tube station walls become art in their own right.
My Old Lady movie review (London Film Festival)
A bitterly funny pas de trois character dramedy performed by three compulsively watchable actors.
Get on Up movie review: James Brown’s bad self
Solid biopic of the godfather of funk and soul, but there’s not much genuinely memorable about it beyond Chadwick Boseman’s stunning breakout performance.
