new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Jan 18
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 18
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie star in historical drama Mary Queen of Scots; more…
Hale County This Morning, This Evening documentary review: a flow of time and hope
Slice-of-life and stream-of-consciousness, this is unlike any documentary before about what it’s like to be poor and black in America. RaMell Ross is an important new voice in American cinema.
more (fictional) notes from The British Museum
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!
curated: YouTube bans videos showing dangerous pranks and stunts
So what’s YouTube gonna do about racist and misogynist videos?
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Jan 15-18
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Jan 14-18
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Jan 11
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 11
Bel Powley stars in historical drama Ashes in the Snow; more…
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Jan 09-11
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 09-11
Keira Knightley stars in historical docudrama Colette, cowritten by Rebecca Lenkiewicz; more…
I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again today, Saturday, January 12th
We’ll be talking about Keira Knightley’s new film Colette; everything Idris Elba; Justin Hurwitz’s amazing score for First Man; and a lot more.
Voices of the Sea documentary review: when home cannot nurture a family
A poignant, sensitive portrait of desperation, love, and survival in a beautiful place, one that is intimately Cuban, but with much wider relevance, too, in the midst of the global refugee crisis.
more (fictional) notes from The British Museum
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!
AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced
Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Jan 08
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Jan 07-12
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
curated: the da Vinci money-laundering scam to benefit Trump that will make a great movie
If the world survives President Donald Trump, that is.
curated: Trump’s misunderstanding of ‘Game of Thrones’ is totally emblematic of our culture today
Alas, Trump and his fans are not tuned in to metaphor. That sort of thing is for experts and intellectuals, who are not to be trusted.
introducing weekly flash fiction for Patreon patrons
As a way to get the fiction lobe of my brain working — and to keep it juiced up for far more exciting projects I will begin very soon — I’m embarking on a new weekly project I’m calling “(fictional) notes from The British Museum.”
On the Basis of Sex movie review: Notorious RBG’s origin story
Coasts on the awesomeness of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a way unadventurous if solidly crowd-pleasing. But the depiction of her incredibly supportive marriage to a feminist man is intensely satisfying.
OFCS 2018 awards winners announced
Roma wins four awards including Best Picture; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is Best Animated Feature.
curated: “What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era”
Manohla Dargis says it all. I could have written every word of this.
new and ongoing cinema releases, US/Can, Dec 17-Jan 04
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Dec 17-Jan 04
It’s Christmas for movies about women! Women-centered Mary Queen of Scots, The Favourite, Second Act, and Bumblebee all open wide over the holidays. Amazing.
new and ongoing cinema releases, UK/Ire, Dec 21-Jan 04
A simple listing of movies opening this week and in continuing release.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Dec 21-Jan 04
Women get wide releases! Christina Hodson writes and Hailee Steinfeld stars in sci-fi action-adventure Bumblebee; Deborah Davis cowrites and Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz star in historical dramedy The Favourite; more…
Polina movie review: what it takes to dance ballet
A marvelous paean to everything that goes into making great art: hard work, complicated humanity, taking risks, and trusting one’s own instincts. Anastasia Shevtsova is tremendous as a young woman with an indomitable spirit.
I am no longer using Facebook to promote my work; here are some alternatives for following me
I apologize for any annoyance or inconvenience this may cause. Though you probably hadn’t been seeing my posts in your feed anyway.
Bumblebee movie review: floats like a butterfly…
Nostalgic without being mindlessly retro; a sweet, heartfelt girl-and-her-alien-robot-car action-adventure buddy dramedy that hits all the right notes. Hailee Steinfeld is terrific, and there’s not a whiff of Michael Bay to be found.
Welcome to Marwen movie review: toying with our sympathy
The plastic terror of The Polar Express melded with the kooky charm of Forrest Gump is a bad, sometimes outright icky, way to tell a tale of trauma and recovery, and does a disservice to Steve Carell’s sensitive performance.
online critics pick ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ as best film of 2018 in HeyUGuys poll
I participated in this poll, but this is not my pick for movie of the year…
behold 20th Century Fox’s brand-new Christmas trailer… for ‘Die Hard’
This is some of the finest trolling the Internet has seen to date.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Dec 18-Jan 01
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Dec 17-31
A simple listing of new releases and other stuff currently available.
curated: the #MeToo scandal surrounding Geoffrey Rush
Australia’s defamation laws are making it a tough go for his accuser, Yael Stone…
curated: “Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie”
It’s science!
Aquaman movie review: deep blah sea
When it’s not tediously predictable in its clichés, its complete lack of narrative or thematic daring, and its colorless meathead hero, it’s a mess of incoherent action and noisy psychedelic chaos.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Dec 13
KiKi Layne stars in drama If Beale Street Could Talk; Nadine Labaki directs social-realist drama Capernaum; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Sat Dec 08
Susanne Bier directs science fiction drama Bird Box; Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi codirects documentary Free Solo; more…
Mary Queen of Scots movie review: not so good to be the queen…
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie command the screen in this delicious anti costume drama with an earthy ethos, replete with movie-movie internecine spycraft and a sly, smart feminist parable that resonates for us today.
curated: long-lost Kit Harington/Toothless audition tapes surface
Advice for actors: Never work with children or dragons.
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 (#Netflix)
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…
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