Sherpa documentary review: go tell it on the mountain (LFF 2015)
Captures a burgeoning revolutionary spirit among a people who have been ignored, when they aren’t being taken advantage of, for too long.
Year: 2015
Where Are the Women? Christmas with the Coopers (aka Love the Coopers)
While there are plenty of women here, nearly all are defined through their relationships with men or by the romantic expectations placed upon them.
Christmas with the Coopers (aka Love the Coopers) movie review: familial torture
Glossy Hollywood automatons sleepwalk through family dynamics full of forced quirkiness, excruciating cuteness, and phony emotion. Absolutely cringeworthy.
London photo: time to get Christmas started
Pub garden turned Christmas tree sales lot.
London photos: wine by the sip
At wine merchant The Sampler in Kensington, you can buy tastes of wine by the sip, gulp, or quaff.
Where Are the Women? The Letters (aka Letters from Mother Teresa)
A female protagonist who battles to wrest authority and agency for herself from a male-dominated institution is the sort of story we need more of.
The Letters (aka Letters from Mother Teresa) movie review: utter nunsense
A fatuous argument for Mother Teresa’s sainthood; credulous and willfully ignorant, and disregards everything about her beliefs that was nasty or skeptical.
Spooks: The Greater Good (aka MI-5) movie review: game of moles
A ridiculous, rote action thriller, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t entertaining, crammed with all sorts of macho emoting and spy nonsense as it is.
Doctor Who blogging: “Heaven Sent”
That mind-blowing moment when the Doctor realizes what’s going on! And the next mind-blowing moment when you realize none of it hangs together!
Where Are the Women? Creed
Why couldn’t Apollo Creed’s child have been a daughter who wants to box? That would have been a true reinvigoration of the Rocky franchise.
