London photo: Dolby globes
The lobby of the Dolby screening room always makes me think of Men in Black…
Month: April 2015
Where Are the Women? Far from the Madding Crowd
A woman in a man’s job and enjoying the luxury of not having to settle romantically is a great role model not only for Victorian England but today too. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Unfriended
More than one girl in an ensemble plus a female villain are good things. But the most prominent of the girls is treated in a retrograde, gendered way. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Unfriended movie review: the call is coming from inside Facebook!
There’s little less compelling than a vague evil spirit with loosely defined powers doing random “scary” things as required by the script.
Far from the Madding Crowd movie review: a woman’s choices
Ridiculously romantic in all the best ways, and more modern, more progressive, and even just plain more grownup that half the movies thrown at us today.
London photo: beautiful staircase
At the Tate Britain, in Pimlico.
Still Alice movie review: a true horror movie
Julianne Moore’s terror at watching her own emotional and intellectual life slip away is palpable, and much scarier to me than any slasher movie.
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London photo: do not speed
Child-augmented road sign.
a few thoughts about Game of Thrones S05 E03 (“High Sparrow”) and open thread
So this episode was all about how, if you don’t allow women to have power in their own right, you force them to grab it indirectly.
