Beyond the Lights movie review: blitz the glitz
Smart and passionate, this is one of the ultimate Hollywood fantasies: an adult romance performed by gorgeous actors with palpable onscreen chemistry.
Year: 2015
London photo: tiled welcome
At the Brunswick Mansions in Bloomsbury.
Where Are the Women? Project Almanac
Boys will be boys, and do science. And girls will be girls, and stand around scantily dressed and watching the boys in awe. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Project Almanac movie review: temporal d’oh!
There are things in which horny teenaged boys were not meant to meddle. Like we needed the warning.
Ejecta movie review: ech file
Quite possibly an alien torture device designed to turn our brains to mush. *sob*
Catch Me Daddy movie review: nowhere to run
A lurid meatgrinder of a movie in which the young-woman protagonist is reduced to a passive object of male rage, greed, and possessiveness.
A Dark Reflection movie rating: red light
Would-be conspiracy thriller undermines its own noble intent with its amateurism and dull, plodding earnestness.
It Follows movie review: sexually transmitted dread
Wait. Really? Horror movies are still doing the punishing-girls-for-having-sex thing? Ah, but this is 80s retro, so it’s “okay,” then.
London photo: wavy watery building
All of London is currently under construction…
Where Are the Women? The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Cartoons can be tricky to rate for gender representation… but it’s clear here that the only two female characters fill only limited supporting roles. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
