Where Are the Women? Big Eyes
Not only a story about a woman but a story about the particular plight of women in a place and time that was not friendly to their talents and ambitions.
Year: 2016
Big Eyes movie review: painted into a corner
A bitter feminist fairy tale about a woman betrayed by love and trust and crafted by culture to be vulnerable to the charms of a con-artist husband.
Where Are the Women? Love & Mercy
The few women who appear exist solely as support for the male protagonist: a young wife early in his life and, later, a new girlfriend who reinvigorates him.
Love & Mercy movie review: strange vibrations
Intense, unconventional, often uncomfortable portrait of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson that transcends the typical clichés about madness and creativity.
London photo: Charlie Brown’s Roundabout
I’ve been riding this bus for more than three years, and I have never before seen “Charlie Brown’s Roundabout” as its destination.
London photos: the giant Monopoly board in Trafalgar Square
In honor of the launch of the London Games Festival.
Where Are the Women? A Walk in the Woods
The most significant female character here is the male protagonist’s wife… and she is introduced in a scene in which she is, literally, vacuuming.
A Walk in the Woods movie review: ramble on and on
A sitcom about old men creaking along the Appalachian Trail, reminiscing about slutty girls, and maybe having a stroke at any moment. You know, for fun.
Sold movie review: the life of a child sex slave
Brutal yet sensitively rendered, putting a human face, if a fictional one, on an issue that rarely gets one. Almost Dickens for the 21st century.
Black Mountain Poets movie review: rhyme and unreason
A tasty treat of gentle but wise humor, full of as much sympathy but also tough love for its messed-up sisters as they are for each other.
