Where Are the Women? The Emperor’s New Clothes
With interviews with women impacted by our difficult economic times and an appearance by Margaret Thatcher, women are fairly well represented here. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Year: 2015
The Emperor’s New Clothes documentary review: working-class wonk
Russell Brand’s angry-funny rant about the current system of widescale economic injustice is concise, comprehensible, and newly infuriating.
Where Are the Women? Avengers: Age of Ultron
Like many of the others in the Marvel franchise, this movie depicts women as well-rounded people with lives, stories, and problems independent of men. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: the great menace of our time
Itinerant ice cream peddlers. Monsters!
Avengers: Age of Ultron movie review: mad science fiction
Not without problems, but continues the Avengers tradition of big, bold blockbusters that don’t need to toss away thoughtfulness to remain pure popcorn fun.
London photo: baby elephant
Garden gnomes are for proles.
Where Are the Women? Child 44
Noomi Rapace’s wife character does go on a bit of a personal journey… although it’s mostly concerned with her relationship with her husband. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Child 44 movie review: Stalin glance
Overly complicated yet somehow anticlimactic, and constructed more with pat Hollywood pomp rather than the authentic grit it demands.
finally, someone is thinking of the men in Hollywood
Make it fair, people. #MakeItFair. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Monsters: Dark Continent
Even grading on the “Women exist only to support men’s stories” curve, women are treated abysmally here. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
