curated: “The San Diego Comic-Con News Generator”
Look at the news I found! Can’t wait to check out these projects…
Year: 2021
question of the weekend: what’s your favorite movie-related app or site?
And let us in on a secret feature on it or the tool there you use most. Tell us your movie-nerd secrets!
The Body Fights Back documentary review: food for thought
Honest, compassionate, and very necessary, this is a provocation, a challenge to our individual and cultural preconceived notions about and neurotic relationships to food, weight, and body image.
curated: “The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now?“
AO Scott in The New York Times goes long on what I was trying to get at with my Question of the Weekend from July 3rd, when I asked, “What are movies for anymore?” (He doesn’t seem to know, either.)
question of the weekend: have you ever attended a film festival? (and if not, would you like to?)
Do you have any particularly good — or bad — memories of the experience, perhaps of certain films you got to see that you wouldn’t otherwise have been able to, or of the overall vibe? Would you attend again, or have you?
Nowhere Special movie review: a father’s final bittersweet task
Beautiful and heartbreaking. A beguiling portrait of love, grief, and pragmatism that unites father and son, built up via tender moments of the most ordinary sort. James Norton’s performance is revelatory.
A Perfect Enemy movie review: terminal rage
Ridiculous excuse for a thriller — obvious, preposterous, ultimately banal — piles on psychological absurdities as it builds from a maddening middle to an enraging crescendo of misogynist nonsense.
I’m on two panels at the BFI’s Woman with a Movie Camera fest (now available globally!)
In addition to my two prerecorded panels, I will pop into the live Zoom socials on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. You must buy your ticket by 5pm UK time on Friday. Please join us!
please review ‘Cultural Artifacts’ if you’ve read it!
Reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, and anywhere else that sells ebooks really do help. Plus: A teaser from the book to tempt those who haven’t bought a copy yet. (Also: The serial science fiction project I’ve teased a few times is about to launch!)
question of the weekend: are you comfortable going back to cinemas yet?
If not, what will it take for you to be comfortable? Or, perhaps you’ve been going to the movies all along during the pandemic, when possible, in which case I’d ask: How safe did that feel, and were you ever worried about your safety?
