“Benedict Cumberbatch urges fans not to take photos during Hamlet play”
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Month: August 2015
cool things you guys are up to: publishing short fantasy fiction
Reader bronxbee has a wonderful piece of urban fantasy in a new short-fiction anthology… [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: outside the night bus
I saw this outside the night bus during my most recent nocturnal sojourn: an upside-down car in the middle of the road.
Harbinger Down movie rating: red light
This “homage” to 80s sci-fi/horror is a cheerless amalgam of The Thing and Alien populated by improbable characters behaving in unlikely ways.
52 Tuesdays movie rating: green light
Compassionate Australian drama about a teenaged girl’s sexual awakening that is complicated by her mother’s transgender transition to manhood.
“does the dog die in that movie?”
As if I’d spoil such a thing! But there’s a website that will…
Where Are the Women? Max
A boy and his dog. And then another boy and the dog. And even the damn dog is male.
Max movie review: all dogs go to war
Jingoistic propaganda and heart-tugging cornball melodrama about a dog with PTSD. It’s how we are Enduring Freedom. God bless America.
Where Are the Women? The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Defies the clichés with which women are treated onscreen by turning the tropes of exploitation into expressions of a woman’s ownership of her sexuality.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl movie review: crossing no-woman’s-land to adulthood
It shouldn’t be radical to see a movie treat a girl with this level of appreciation and understanding of her most intimate inner self. Yet it is.
