Where Are the Women? Captain America: The Winter Soldier
With multiple women who are competent professionals defined by their work first, this is a great example of good female representation in a man’s story. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Year: 2015
Where Are the Women? Maleficent
Not the reimagining of a traditional story it purports to be: it perpetuates retrograde notions about the abuse of women as a good way to punish a man. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: is there a hole in that human skull?
Is there a word for that space on the outside of a basement flat? A patio? A below-ground terrace?
Drunktown’s Finest movie review: native voices
Infuses a familiar tale of small-town life and youthful disaffection with a crisp sense of hope teased out of Navajo tradition.
Where Are the Women? The Wedding Ringer
Women? Easily manipulated dupes. Men can tell the most outrageous lies, and women will buy it if you distract them with fairy-tale wedding fantasies. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
The Wedding Ringer movie review: manfriendwhore for sale
A festering pile of fatphobic, homophobic, sexist, grossout garbage in which men are manipulative liars but women are worse.
Where Are the Women? Blackhat
More than one smart, capable, competent woman helps drive the action… and none is defined solely (or at all!) as a mother or a lover. Hooray. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Blackhat movie review: broken code
This mysteriously misbegotten flick should be a gritty 10-hour miniseries so it would have time to explore its ideas and potentially fascinating characters.
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter movie review: Minnesota odd-yssey
Weirdly funny and weirdly sad, one woman’s slo-mo nervous breakdown becomes an exercise in pathos that is unforgettably poignant.
London photo: creamy houses
In Bayswater.
