Bleed for This movie review: entirely bloodless
If there is something new to be said about boxing, Bleed for This doesn’t find it. Sucks all the energy out of a story that should have been a can’t-miss.
Month: November 2016
this is not a safe space for Trump supporters
No warning. Just don’t do it. You want to defend Trump, do it somewhere else.
curated: and now 2016 has taken Leonard Cohen
I hate this year.
not capable of anything beyond sputtering outrage at the moment
I’m still so full of angry horror, in between long periods of numb horror, that I cannot concentrate on much of anything right now.
Seville: just a shrine on the side of a building
Lots of these all over the city…
Arrival movie review: how to talk to aliens and expand your consciousness
Intelligent, intense, grownup science fiction that will thrill genre lovers and satisfy fans of moving human drama. A beautiful, thought-provoking film.
Fire Song movie review: finding a path through a broken world
A sensitive portrait, but often a wretched one, of young people at crossroads, set on a Canadian First Nations reservation but with resonance far beyond.
Seville photos: food fantasies
I did not sample either of these.
curated: an American muggle at Hogwarts…
…and he’s the new IT guy.
The Uncondemned documentary review: the horrors of Rwanda, on trial
Meet the dedicated young lawyers and activists who prosecuted and convicted the first person ever to go to prison for genocide and wartime rape.
