Camp X-Ray movie review: all of us behind bars
Superbly unsettling. Pointedly highlights how incarceration dehumanizes inmate and guard alike. Kristen Stewart’s steeliness is perfectly suited to its ironies.
Month: January 2016
A Perfect Day movie review: war is hellacious
This compact little satire — set in 1990s Balkans — is a small, personal story about huge unfairnesses and injustices. Bleakly, bitterly, blackly funny.
Where Are the Women? Carol
A story about two women trying to carve out places for themselves in the world? This is perhaps the very definition of a feminist film.
Carol movie review: flung out of space
Flawless in every way: sumptuous visually and emotionally. One of the more mature and sophisticated romances the big screen has ever seen.
Alan Rickman sings “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”
From Truly, Madly, Deeply, one of the greatest films ever…
London photo: a message for our “glorious world leaders”
Spotted in Soho the other evening…
more men I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with in movies
Update! Another year, another slate of films proving there is almost nothing that men can do, think, or be that The Movies will not deem worthy of a story.
Where Are the Women? The Danish Girl
It’s about a transgender woman, sure, but it’s ultimately little more than a showcase for a male actor to show off his range and be “brave.”
The Danish Girl movie review: sometimes it’s hard to be a woman
Safe, conventional, and not particularly sympathetic to women, cis or trans. Mistakes the external signifiers of femininity with actually being a woman.
why Anthony Ingruber *must* be young Han Solo in the Star Wars spinoff
He doesn’t only look and sound like Harrison Ford, he’s got the charm and the presence for the role.
