Raw movie review: girly gory allegory
Cinema as a punch in the gut and not for the squeamish, casting female desire as ravenously predatory in a way that few films have ever had the audacity to do.
Month: April 2017
The Lost City of Z movie review: archaeology was his religion
An adventure of the intellect and of the heart with the real-life explorer who inspired Indiana Jones, one more about the journey than the destination.
curated: Taco Bell’s bro-tastic “friend zone” ad
Taco Bell: down with male sexual entitlement.
Free Fire movie review: guns a-boring
A 90-minute shootout that never makes us care who lives and who dies. In attempting to send up a cinematic cliché, this only becomes a tedious example of same.
London photo: architectural black face
But in a good way!
The Handmaiden movie review: the women pushing back against misogyny, thwarted by their own film
The intrigue, shifting alliances, and twisted revenge? Delicious, pulpy fun. The male-gazey soft-core porn that undermines the female protagonists? Not so much.
curated: Cognitive Dissonance: A Star Wars Story
If little boys cannot see themselves in the characters in Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, they’ll just die, or something.
ads now appearing in Disqus threads (updated)
A reader has generously offered to cover the $10-per-month charge to remove ads from Disqus…
Fast & Furious 8 (aka The Fate of the Furious) movie review: notes from the critics’ ward
EMPs and nukular codes and cyber crap and submarines, oh my! “What does this have to do with us?” Michelle Rodriguez cries, and I’m like I know, right?
