Wild Card movie review: hardboiled rotten egg
Piles of noirish exposition get the better of Jason Statham in this unpleasantly retrograde crime drama. What happened in Vegas should have stayed there.
Month: March 2015
London photo: SpongeBob’s neighbors
The hoardings around the Nickelodeon store under construction in Leicester Square get some (presumably) unauthorized decoration.
Home movie review: lots of places like it
Science fiction with training wheels, fine for sucking the kiddies into geekery but with little appeal for grownup fans of animated genre adventure.
London photo: advertising is as advertising does
Do they have an ISA that invests in some sort of fruit company?
The Gunman movie review: the yawn identity
A tired old piece of action junk that expects us to sympathize with a very bad man. We don’t.
London photo: backyard chicken
Technically this is not a city chicken but a denizen of the Surrey suburbs to the south of London.
The Divergent Series: Insurgent movie review: being human
Sneakily undercuts tropes of the young-adult hero’s journey. But in a more adventurous movie environment, this wouldn’t feel this fresh as it does.
London photo: bird with plastic
In Little Venice, near Paddington.
Where Are the Women? X+Y (aka A Brilliant Young Mind)
Boy genius is confused, upset. Mom and girlfriend will guide him on the path to manhood. Because of course they will. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Cinderella
Subsume your individuality and your desires in the hopes that other people will like you? How come we never tell stories about men that sound like this? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
