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.
Year: 2015
London photo: on the night bus (part ii)
Sleeping on the night bus, reflected in the window.
Where Are the Women? Fantastic Four
This is a case of a film doing the absolute minimum it needs to in order not to be considered outright sexist.
Fantastic Four movie review: fantastic bore
There isn’t an authentic human motivation or emotion to be found here. The bar has been raised too high on comic-book movies for us to accept junk like this.
London photo: battle of the kebab shops
A fight for supremacy for the title of most superlative kebab to be found along the 243 bus’s route.
Where Are the Women? War Book
This is (mostly) a great example of positive depiction of women: as people with authority, with strong opinions, with powerful personalities.
War Book movie review: the fate of humanity
Riveting, terrifying, and unafraid to confront its own quiet horror. One of the most important movies ever about nuclear weapons and modern governance.
London photos: on the night bus
Not much to do on the long ride home.
London photos: sustenance for the night bus
After an evening of copious consumption of alcohol, sustenance for the long ride home on the night bus is required.
Where Are the Women? Danny Collins
It’s never too late for a man to earn redemption for his selfish ways… not when he has women to show him the way to humanity.
