Pixels movie review: blue screen of death (please)
Adam Sandler imagines himself as the savior of the planet. And then it gets even more puffed up with arrogance and all manner of masturbatory fantasy.
Year: 2015
“Benedict Cumberbatch urges fans not to take photos during Hamlet play”
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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.
