Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) movie review: revenge served hot
This anthology of six bleakly funny shorts is a mixed bag that ranges from anticlimactic but intriguing to “Oh my God, did I just laugh out loud at that?”
Month: March 2015
Where Are the Women? The Voices
Where are the women in this movie? Dead and in pieces… and that’s meant to be kooky and charming. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
The Voices movie review: losing my cool
A chipper woman-hating comedy about a serial killer… that wants us to feel sorry for him? This is disgusting, repulsive, and enraging.
London photo: early morning Chinatown
All white delivery vans bringing pallets of fresh veggies for the day’s menus…
Where Are the Women? The Gunman
The only woman here unquestioningly attaches herself not to merely one secretive, violent man but to two. Because even bad men deserve a hot babe. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Home
It’s absolutely wonderful to see a mixed-race teenaged girl as a coprotagonist. But why are even pastel-colored alien blobs mostly presented as “male”? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Wild Card
If there was a Where Are the Women bingo card, this unpleasantly retro movie would win a booby prize. (Is there a hooker with a heart of gold? You betcha.) [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Divergent Series: Insurgent
A female protagonist who encompasses the full spectrum of humanity is a smackdown win for the notion — often ignored by Hollywood — that women are people. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: Baker Street tube station
Picking a design theme was elementary, I suspect…
A Second Chance movie review: cops and fathers
An impossible tragedy, a movie that confounds all expectations and is full of a terrible suspense. You have never seen a cop movie like this before.
