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Year: 2015

Vacation movie review: stay home

Fri, Aug 21, 2015
8 comments

All homophobic, xenophobic, scatological grossout, with some rape and pedophilia “jokes” for flavor. How did this happen?

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London photo: Hampstead headlines

Thu, Aug 20, 2015
2 comments

Not sure if serious or sarcastic…

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Where Are the Women? Trainwreck

Thu, Aug 20, 2015
2 comments

The female protagonist is messed up, not very nice, and definitely not pursuing romance. Is she pursuing sex? Sure…

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Trainwreck movie review: all aboard

Thu, Aug 20, 2015
12 comments

A breath of half-nasty, half-nice fresh air, set somewhere near the intersection between a parody of a romantic comedy and a straight-up example of one.

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London photos: leafy suburbia in Zone 2

Wed, Aug 19, 2015
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If I hadn’t taken this photo myself, I would refuse to believe that this is in the heart of London.

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London photo: doorstep cats

Tue, Aug 18, 2015
2 comments

The black-and-white cat did eventually come say hello to me, and permit herself to be petted.

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Where Are the Women? Ten Thousand Saints

Tue, Aug 18, 2015
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A young woman is reduced to little more than a vessel for an unborn child, and an object for feelings by the male protagonist.

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Ten Thousand Saints movie review: exhausted urban elegy

Tue, Aug 18, 2015
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An achingly perfect evocation of New York’s East Village in the 1980s and an amazing cast cannot make this tale of adolescent anxiety catch fire.

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Where Are the Women? Absolutely Anything

Tue, Aug 18, 2015
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The male protagonist uses his newly acquired godlike powers to treat women badly, as if they were nothing more than playthings for men.

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Absolutely Anything movie review: absolutely appalling

Tue, Aug 18, 2015
6 comments

Subjuvenile and offensive, sentimental and ridiculous. Every attempt at a joke falls flat. Every talent here is wasted. Save yourself.

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