How to Be Single movie review: more like how not to be single
Hollywood does not know how to make a movie about women that isn’t about the pursuit of romance. Even when women say they don’t want romance, they’re lying.
Month: February 2016
London photos: doggie at the screening
At my screening of Oddball and the Penguins a couple of weeks ago, we were treated to a special guest: a Maremma dog like the ones featured in the film.
Zoolander 2 movie review: fashionably foolish
A tad dated and scattershot, but the messy package is inventively absurd… and unlike many Hollywood comedies, able to carry that absurdity to a silly end.
Oddball and the Penguins (aka Oddball) movie review: dogs and birds living together
Sweet, silly, charming. A true story about an unlikely canine-assisted project to protect endangered birds, goofily fictionalized to engage kids.
London photo: historic pub location
England! Where they commemorate the former sites of drinking establishments.
Bad Hurt movie review: family tied
Exhaustion of mind and body is the primary sentiment in this sensitively observed family drama, drawn with an intimacy that is palpable and uncompromising.
London photo: Aldwych Underground station (disused)
It’s no longer operational, but it is used for filming movies and TV shows sometimes.
Where Are the Women? Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
With the female chipmunk trio the Chipettes sidelined, women here are represented primarily via the (human) girlfriend of the Chipmunks’ human pal Dave.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip movie review: born to be mild
Instantly forgettable but inoffensive fluff… you know, for kids. And “inoffensive” is better than can be said for many movies aimed at children.
Where Are the Women? Racing Extinction
The vast majority of people who appear on camera in this documentary are men… and most of the few women who do appear do not speak to the camera.
