London photos: personal tributes among the Tower poppies
Today I returned to see the poppies installation at the Tower of London to discover that visitors have been leaving their own tributes.
Year: 2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I movie review: image manipulation
One of the best SF series ever deepens its critique of the power of propaganda in ways complicated, intriguingly contradictory, and a little bit horrifying.
London photo: Eros Christmas prep
There was all this work going on around the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus this past Sunday morning.
The Imitation Game movie review: decoding Alan Turing
A marvelous combination of thrilling intellectual adventure and sensitive portrait of a man ahead of his time both personally and professionally.
London photo: sign of freedom
Someone is going around London altering No Entry road signs to humorous or interesting effect.
The Drop movie review (London Film Festival)
Cements Tom Hardy’s reputation as one of the most effortlessly mesmerizing actors working today.
London photo: hello, Kitty
Hello Kitty keeps a lonely watch from her high-up perch.
When Animals Dream (Når dyrene drømmer) movie review (London Film Festival)
A social-realist werewolf fantasy in which burgeoning womanhood is a thing terrifying to many a man, particularly if a woman simply will not be tamed.
Open Windows movie review: click to close
A disgusting tale that imagines its tiny side dish of commentary on toxic fandom and male entitlement makes up for it being a perfect example of such.
Doctor Who blogging: “Death in Heaven”
Steven Moffat is now stealing plots from Ed Wood-esque parodies of science fiction. Because he just rewrote Chubby Rain.
