curated: ‘Die Hard’ IS a Christmas movie
Case closed.
Mortal Engines movie review: it’s got no rev
Like the book it’s based on, the worldbuilding is intriguing, but the characters and story are strictly cliché. A lazy, confused, and derivative disaster, with plot points and visual and thematic motifs shamelessly stolen from far better movies.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie review: animation gets reanimated
Has a verve rare in big-budget movies at the moment. Fun and fresh and legitimately engages with its source material on the levels of story, visuals, and mythology all at once. It feels like discovering storytelling anew.
curated: “Movies Starring Women Earn More Than Male-Led Films”
This is even better than my Where Are the Women? project found…
Dumplin’ movie review: throwing her weight around
A lovely movie that warmly embraces a wide(ish) range of girls-and-women-as-people, one that doesn’t reduce its large heroine — the amazing Danielle Macdonald — to nothing more than her size. This should not feel so damn radical, but it is.
curated: Rose Macaulay, author, influenced Orwell and Huxley, forgotten and erased
But her groundbreaking book is coming back into print (a century later).
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Dec 06
Bridey Elliott directs dramedy Clara’s Ghost; Alexis Bloom directs documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Dec 07
Lola Arias directs documentary Theatre of War; Mélanie Laurent and Alicia Vikander costar in historical romances; and not much more…
new Patreon tiers and rewards (and a note to current PayPal donors)
I’m afraid it means more hassle for some of my most devoted, most supportive readers. I wish it didn’t have to be like this…
say hello to the “movies for the resistance” and “on Netflix globally” pages
Two big new sections arrive on the site today, both excuses for me to review more — and more different kinds of — movies.
