Irrational Man movie review: the measure of a man’s midlife crisis
A blithe and chipper drawing-room comedy that, in a deliciously perverse way, plays with notions of chance and karma and very bitter irony.
Year: 2016
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 movie review: prearranged marriage
There is genuine if exasperated warmth here, but it is far less satisfyingly bound up into a cohesive story in this halfhearted retread of the original film.
Where Are the Women? Hot Pursuit
All the positives that come from having both a female protagonist and a female antagonist get negated by how these women are ridiculed for their gender.
Hot Pursuit movie review: nice rack and ruin
Spectacularly misogynist. Every single attempt at humor — all of which fail — comes from abusing and humiliating its central female characters as women.
rewatching My Big Fat Greek Wedding (the tweetening)
Tonight I rewatched My Big Fat Greek Wedding in preparation for a screening of the sequel tomorrow night…
The Brainwashing of My Dad documentary review: pushing back against Fox News
An entertaining look at why Fox News is setting the agenda for what passes for journalism in the U.S, and a tool, perhaps, for deprogramming its adherents.
Risen movie review: when habeas corpus gets weird
Initially intriguing detective tale of ancient Rome hops genres into fantasy, with a strange manic-preacher-dream-boy seduction of its pragmatic protagonist.
10 Cloverfield Lane movie review: the monsters women have to deal with
A marvelous little movie: compact, efficient, almost unbearably intense, smartly (perhaps accidentally) feminist. A glorious treat of pulp genre fun.
Where Are the Women? Huevos: Little Rooster’s Egg-Cellent Adventure (Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos)
The name of the lovestruck female love interest for the male protagonist is almost never uttered. His name is mentioned constantly, natch. What a metaphor!
Huevos: Little Rooster’s Egg-Cellent Adventure (Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos) movie review: a cock and balls story
Bad chicken-and-egg puns and indoctrination into animal cruelty as just good fun for everyone involved (including the animals). You know, for kids.
