London photo: my new favorite screening room
The most luxurious and comfortable place I’ve ever seen a movie… or three.
Month: April 2016
The Jungle Book movie review: welcome to the jungle
Goes right up to the bleeding edge of cinema to tell a story that is strapping yet simple, and hugely appealing. Disney found a good reason to redo an old film.
Where Are the Women?: movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
In terms of both budget and profit, it costs nothing to treat women like people onscreen. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
Hollywood would like to believe otherwise, for reasons known only to them. But here’s proof to the contrary. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
Rotten Tomatoes critics are 22% more likely to give a good score to films that represent women well, and Metacritic critics are 28% more likely to do so. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: best and worst representations of women on film in 2015
The median WATW score and the average score agree: Hollywood movies are, overall, not very good at treating women like people. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
This is not acceptable. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: crunching the numbers
Everything we learned from the Where Are the Women? project. (Spoiler: It’s not pretty, but there is hope…) [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Midnight Special movie review: let the children use it
Intensely gripping drama full of smart, thoughtful, personal twists on some familiar sci-fi ideas. Hums with the hope that a better world is within reach.
2015’s films ranked
All the films of 2015, ranked from best to worst. This list is now final.
