Danny Collins movie review: the tragedy of the filthy rich rock star
Listen as the world’s tiniest violin plays on the soundtrack of this utterly obvious and clichéd three-quarter-life crisis dramedy.
Year: 2015
Where Are the Women? The Gift
Little more than the standard woman-in-peril thriller, but worse, because it robs the woman of the bit of agency these sorts of movies usually grant her.
The Gift movie review: give it back unopened
Descends into emotional idiocy and insufficient intrigue to end in a disgusting place that presumes that a woman is an appropriate pawn in games men play.
London photo: my movie life
My life in a nutshell.
A Lego Brickumentary documentary review: brick by brick
It does sort of feel like one of those rah-rah corporate promo videos they make you watch on the day you start a new job, but there are some surprises here.
Of Girls and Horses movie review: wishes are horses
A lovely film with a compassionate appreciation for how teen girls can often find a sort of comfort in clinging to their woundedness and pain.
sorry for the slacking off lately
It’s not intentional.
London photos: 84 Charing Cross Road
The setting for the wonderful novel and movie… now the site of a McDonald’s.
Where Are the Women? Inside Out
That a young girl’s emotions are used to tell a story about universal human experience is something new, a paradigm-smashing win for female representation.
Inside Out movie review: all the feels
There is joy and wonder in this marvelous mounting of a human mind, and a thrilling audacity in how it dares at such a strange and impossible thing.
