London photo: Charlie Brown’s Roundabout
I’ve been riding this bus for more than three years, and I have never before seen “Charlie Brown’s Roundabout” as its destination.
London photos: the giant Monopoly board in Trafalgar Square
In honor of the launch of the London Games Festival.
Where Are the Women? A Walk in the Woods
The most significant female character here is the male protagonist’s wife… and she is introduced in a scene in which she is, literally, vacuuming.
A Walk in the Woods movie review: ramble on and on
A sitcom about old men creaking along the Appalachian Trail, reminiscing about slutty girls, and maybe having a stroke at any moment. You know, for fun.
Sold movie review: the life of a child sex slave
Brutal yet sensitively rendered, putting a human face, if a fictional one, on an issue that rarely gets one. Almost Dickens for the 21st century.
Black Mountain Poets movie review: rhyme and unreason
A tasty treat of gentle but wise humor, full of as much sympathy but also tough love for its messed-up sisters as they are for each other.
Ran (4K restoration) movie rating: green light
A fiercely cinematic experience of startling metaphors, sweeping battles, intense characters, and vivid color that deserves to be seen on a big screen…
Where Are the Women? True Story
The supporting female adjunct to the male protagonist is so generic that I couldn’t even tell whether she was supposed to be a romantic partner or a sister.
True Story movie review: lies and the lying liars who tell them
The height of poor taste. Grants notorious men even more notoriety by giving voice to their inexcusable “travails,” thereby feeding their self-absorption.
Marguerite movie review: is ignorance bliss?
A bravura dramedy that beautifully balances tragedy and comedy and asks a tricky question: Is it better to be cynical about art, or happily undiscriminating?
