Where Are the Women? The Gunman
The only woman here unquestioningly attaches herself not to merely one secretive, violent man but to two. Because even bad men deserve a hot babe. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Year: 2015
Where Are the Women? Home
It’s absolutely wonderful to see a mixed-race teenaged girl as a coprotagonist. But why are even pastel-colored alien blobs mostly presented as “male”? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Wild Card
If there was a Where Are the Women bingo card, this unpleasantly retro movie would win a booby prize. (Is there a hooker with a heart of gold? You betcha.) [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Divergent Series: Insurgent
A female protagonist who encompasses the full spectrum of humanity is a smackdown win for the notion — often ignored by Hollywood — that women are people. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: Baker Street tube station
Picking a design theme was elementary, I suspect…
A Second Chance movie review: cops and fathers
An impossible tragedy, a movie that confounds all expectations and is full of a terrible suspense. You have never seen a cop movie like this before.
Wild Card movie review: hardboiled rotten egg
Piles of noirish exposition get the better of Jason Statham in this unpleasantly retrograde crime drama. What happened in Vegas should have stayed there.
London photo: SpongeBob’s neighbors
The hoardings around the Nickelodeon store under construction in Leicester Square get some (presumably) unauthorized decoration.
Home movie review: lots of places like it
Science fiction with training wheels, fine for sucking the kiddies into geekery but with little appeal for grownup fans of animated genre adventure.
London photo: advertising is as advertising does
Do they have an ISA that invests in some sort of fruit company?
