Pan movie review: a disaster of fantastically epic proportions
An embarrassingly empty pastiche of numerous beloved action blockbusters, all frenetic action and soulless mishmashes of fantasy imagery.
Month: October 2015
Paris photo: toys on vacation
Nigel the Charity Pig and Vincent Van Goat take a much-needed break from touring…
Green Room movie review: waiting-room hell (LFF 2015)
Blue Ruin’s Jeremy Saulnier is back with a smart, savage, dryly funny horror flick that has something to say about all-too-human monsters. No spoilers!
Paris photo: papercraft graffiti
In the Latin Quarter.
Where Are the Women? The Martian
This should be the basic model for female representation onscreen: it offers the bare minimum we should accept for the depiction of women in most films.
The Martian movie review: life on Mars
An excellent complement to the novel, simplifying the science without dumbing it down yet retaining the suspense and urgency of its interplanetary stranding.
Doctor Who blogging: “Before the Flood”
Part of the fun for me was that Doctor Who was always a show that rewarded extra thinking-about. Not such much anymore…
Where Are the Women? Room
A great example of how a movie with a male protagonist can still represent even a woman in “traditional” screen roles in a powerful way as fully human.
Room movie review: the world through new eyes (LFF 2015)
I wish I could have stopped the film — numerous times — simply to give myself a chance to step back from an emotional precipice of horror and tension.
Paris photo: Bastille Metro mural
You don’t need to go to a museum to enjoy some art in Paris. You can just hang out at the Metro stations.
