Berlin movie posters
I’m on a short break in Berlin to recover from the marathon of London Film Festival. Here’s a taste of movie Berlin.
Year: 2017
The Snowman movie review: winter blunderland
A clichéd loose-cannon cop is on a case of murdered women in faux Norway. And it’s not even a decent procedural. Sexist, pointless, thoroughly awful.
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women movie review: secret identities (LFF 2017)
A sweet, romantic story about the polyamorous triad that created a beloved superhero… and about the power of comic books to speak to our inner lives.
curated: “my mama told me never trust a space engineer…”
“But I did, I did, I did…”
I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again this Sunday, October 15th
We’ll be talking about the London Film Festival, which wraps up this weekend.
The Ritual movie review: into the woods
A horror movie for grownups, dripping with the dread of a fairy tale of yore, primitive and atavistic, drawing on profound human pain and fear.
Breathe movie review: paralyzed but determined to be mobile (LFF 2017)
A romance and a real-life adventure, full of life-and-death peril and unexpected cheerful good humor, about a pioneer in disability rights and dignity.
Blade Runner 2049 movie review: a rickety retro replicant
Visually, this dying future world is immersively hellish. Intellectually, though, its ideas haven’t kept up with the rapidly evolving science-fictional conversation.
I am *so* behind on reviews
There are never enough hours in the day, and this gets worse during a film festival…
I need a new bingo card…
…one to track Terrible Ways to Treat Women Onscreen.
