Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse movie review: be prepared… to throw it in the campfire
One of the most sexist movies I’ve ever seen. Male juvenile fantasy at its most tired, its most obvious, its most banal, and its most infuriating.
Month: November 2015
Where Are the Women? Truth
An exception to the unspoken Hollywood rule about dismissing women’s stories as worth telling. (Yet this one probably got told only because it impacted men.)
Truth movie review: when journalistic truth is ugly (LFF 2015)
A fascinating look at the pitfalls of modern journalism, and a compelling portrait of a journalist who paid a high price for letting them trip her up.
London photo: glam screening room makeover
The 20th Century Fox screening room recently got a facelift, and is extra glam now.
Where Are the Women? Burnt
Any woman here with a speaking role is nothing more than saintly support for the male protagonist, even when his behavior is at its very worst.
Burnt movie review: just one cook spoils this broth
A celebration of male obnoxiousness that goes warm and fuzzy over its temperamental manchild as he finally learns to impersonate a decent human being. What?
Run movie review: all the unrest of Ivory Coast, all in one man (FilmAfrica festival)
Prophecy and politics are intertwined in a realm where strange and beautiful imagery takes on dark meaning, and violence and male posturing rules all.
London photo: I question the wisdom of what the Brits do to popcorn
This was on my seat at a press screening recently…
London photo: Warner Bros. water tower, Lego version
The iconic Warner Bros. water tower (as seen on the studio lot in Los Angeles), done up in Lego…
Doctor Who blogging: “The Zygon Invasion”
Just when I’ve lost almost all hope for my show, we get an episode like this one: incredibly good science fiction storytelling, incredibly good Doctor Who.
