The Fight movie review: a woman’s struggle is real…
Actor Jessica Hynes makes an astonishing directorial debut with this disconcerting little movie about women’s everyday anger and resentment, and the absolute battle just to get through the day.
Year: 2019
having a gone day
Sorry, guys. I’m right at the edge of seriously losing my shit today. Not able to concentrate on anything.
Five Feet Apart movie review: love/sick teen romance
Beautiful teens fall in love while dying prettily in this year’s tragic young romance, one that medical necessity renders refreshingly chaste. Best bit: Star Haley Lu Richardson is genuinely charming.
Children of the Snow Land documentary review: an epic journey… to and from school
An unexpected, beautiful movie about the character and mettle it takes just to go to school when you come from one of the poorest and most remote places on the planet. A profoundly moving journey.
curated: toys of Japanese monsters giving press conferences to apologize for destroying cities
This may be the best thing I have ever seen.
curated: the arts contribute more to the US economy than agriculture or transportation
Imagine how much more the arts would contribute to the US economy if there were actually meaningful support for them!
me on feminist film criticism
Enjoy the rage.
Captain Marvel movie review: superpowered female SJW invites manbaby nerds to suck it
An indie ethos comes to the comic-book movie, upending the origin story and offering a female superhero who throws out the boys’ rule book, goes her own way, and stalks among us with easy confidence.
my flash-fiction project “(fictional) notes from The British Museum” continues
A flash-fiction project, stories from which are available to all Patreon patrons at the $1/month level or above. Thank you for your support!
