curated: Taco Bell’s bro-tastic “friend zone” ad
Taco Bell: down with male sexual entitlement.
Free Fire movie review: guns a-boring
A 90-minute shootout that never makes us care who lives and who dies. In attempting to send up a cinematic cliché, this only becomes a tedious example of same.
London photo: architectural black face
But in a good way!
The Handmaiden movie review: the women pushing back against misogyny, thwarted by their own film
The intrigue, shifting alliances, and twisted revenge? Delicious, pulpy fun. The male-gazey soft-core porn that undermines the female protagonists? Not so much.
curated: Cognitive Dissonance: A Star Wars Story
If little boys cannot see themselves in the characters in Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, they’ll just die, or something.
ads now appearing in Disqus threads (updated)
A reader has generously offered to cover the $10-per-month charge to remove ads from Disqus…
Fast & Furious 8 (aka The Fate of the Furious) movie review: notes from the critics’ ward
EMPs and nukular codes and cyber crap and submarines, oh my! “What does this have to do with us?” Michelle Rodriguez cries, and I’m like I know, right?
curated: “Rescued by Rover,” 1905
Meet Blair the collie, the first dog movie star.
curated: why CG sucks (except it doesn’t)
Important.
