London photo: everyone is vying for your attention
Near Old Street, East London.
Year: 2015
Where Are the Women? Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
The only female character here may be intelligent and capable… but she is often treated as a decorative object in a way that her male colleagues aren’t.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation movie review: familiar yet fresh
Works for your appreciation with gasp-inducing action sequences and an ethos that has fun with its legacy while moving in a new direction.
Frank the Bastard movie rating: red light
Dreary New England noir soap about a woman uncovering family secrets is like a would-be supernatural thriller that forgot the magic and the chills.
I get mansplained
Hilarious.
London photo: architecture for fun (Part 2)
More from the Festival of Architecture…
Where Are the Women? Southpaw
Women suffer, but their pain is not the point of the story, and their pain is nowhere as important as the pain a man suffers as a result of women’s pain.
Southpaw movie review: punch drunk and disorderly
Clichéd, obvious, and tired. We’ve seen this story so many times before, but rarely with such a lack of appreciation for just how unheroic its “hero” is.
Where Are the Women? Best of Enemies
Though the subjects of the film are men in a male-dominated field, the filmmakers include interviews with female authorities to lend us historical context.
Best of Enemies documentary review: “the practice of malice”
A brilliant, hilarious, exhilarating look at the Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley paradigm-busting 1968 debates that changed TV journalism for the worse.
