Margarita with a Straw movie review: this ain’t no pity party
Open, frank, funny romantic dramedy about a young Indian woman living with cerebral palsy. A perfect antidote to the disability pity porn of Me Before You.
Year: 2016
London photo: doorway to a greener realm
I like to imagine that this portal leads to another world…
new research hints at 3D as a possible learning aid
This is preliminary research, and only small-scale, but I find the implications fascinating.
London photo: Prospect Place cottage
One of the things I love about England is how so many houses — not fancy mansions but ordinary dwellings — have names.
The Boss movie review: hooray for girl power (boo for nowhere near enough)
Plays with hierarchies and rivalries of women’s lives that often aren’t seen onscreen, and embraces women as powerful. But it’s just not very funny about it.
London photo: a still life of flowers, in flowers
Outside the National Gallery earlier this week…
The Conjuring 2 movie review: haunting only in its disjointed bulkiness
“Less Ed and Lorraine” and “more cheese and cardboard” is precisely the last direction a sequel to the classy original should have gone in. Yet here we are.
London photo: not the countryside
But Barnes, in Zone 3.
Approaching the Unknown movie review: no life on the way to Mars
I wish I could figure out what this would-be trippy space odyssey wants to say. I was hoping for sci-fi philosophy. I got nothing but lifeless nonsense.
London photos: Russell Square tube station
The Russell Square tube station still retains its lovely old-fashioned signage.
