Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review
The wonderfully weird, hilariously morbid “World of Tomorrow” crams in more disturbing, sinister science-fiction ideas than a decade’s worth of blockbusters.
Oscar Nominated Live-Action Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review
“Day One” is a wartime drama the likes of which we have not seen before, with a marvelous Layla Alizada as an interpreter with U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi movie review: American mercenary
Michael Bay propagandizes for a right-wing idea of “true America,” seething with disdain for anyone who isn’t a former elite soldier turned mercenary.
London photo: lido diving board at Lumiere London
The King’s Cross Pond got an extra added bit of art: a diving board made entirely of light.
Where Are the Women? Boy & the World
If not for the title, we’d have no clue at all as to the child protagonist’s gender. Which makes it all the more frustrating that a gender has been imposed.
Boy & the World movie review: urban chaos and color
Paints an impressionistic canvas of unease and disquiet, of hope and wonder, filled with glorious music. Magical… though sometimes it’s black magic.
London photos: Westminster Abbey transformed at Lumiere London
I don’t know how the artist got so precise with the color.
Where Are the Women? Our Brand Is Crisis
A female protagonist in a position of authority, in which she is allowed the space to be professional and be heeded by men, is a very good thing.
Our Brand Is Crisis movie review: unearned (and unneeded) sentiment
A protagonist who revels in the sheer cynicism of her job gets a sentimental redemption out of nowhere; Sandra Bullock’s comedic chops are undercut by it.
Where Are the Women? The 33
Women wait, and wail, while men struggle to survive and other men struggle to rescue them.
