a running tally of all the artists and intellectuals hassled by border agents or actually kept out of America under Trump
And now it’s Jorge Antonio Guerrero, who costars in Roma, who can’t get a visa to attend the Oscars…
Year: 2019
movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 23-25
No movies directed by women, written solely by women, or centering only women open in the US this weekend. Two tiny releases feature a mix of men and women… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
still more (fictional) notes from The British Museum
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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 25
Jennifer Lopez stars in romantic comedy Second Act; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Nina movie review: dreary would-be sexual melodrama
Overlong and underwritten, tepid and dreary, this would-be sexual melodrama isn’t lurid enough to qualify as soft-core porn, but never finds any true emotion among its triangle of lovers, either.
Glass movie review: superhero ’splaining
Earnest and humorless, this is a faux-intellectual Comic Book Guy ponderously well-actually-ing us about shallow superhero tropes and clichés as if those are the most intriguing bits of these stories.
Destroyer movie review: holding out for an antiheroine
Nicole Kidman’s pitiless performance completely upends genre expectations in Karyn Kusama’s tense, grim crime noir. Uncompromising and subtly challenging, like a cerebral itch you can’t quite scratch.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 16-18
Tika Sumpter stars and Jamie Lee Curtis costars in dramatic thriller An Acceptable Loss; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 18
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie star in historical drama Mary Queen of Scots; more…
