Daddy’s Home movie review: floundering fathers
Clichés about good dads and bad boys go beyond the cheap and obvious and into the insulting. There’s nothing unexpected or even mildly amusing here.
London photo: pretend traffic jam
I didn’t realize the traffic jams were this bad in London, but kids are reenacting them with their toys. Poor traumatized mites.
Where Are the Women? Star Wars: The Force Awakens
A new generation of fans will now grow up comfortable with the notion that a young woman can be a badass pilot and a great engineer who longs for adventure.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie review: a new hope
Charts a path to a future that refuses to get mired in nostalgia. Yet all the Star Wars notes are here, remixed into a glorious new arrangement.
London photo: Christmas on Coventry Street
The stretch of street between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.
Where Are the Women? Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (aka The Peanuts Movie)
The resonance of Charlie Brown’s put-uponness has descended into clichés about male characters who are prompted to personal journeys by beautiful women.
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (aka The Peanuts Movie) movie review: good grief
Of all the potential Charlie Brown movies Hollywood might have made, this might be the Charlie Brown-iest. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
Fat movie review: prisoner of his own body (and mind)
There is fearlessness here, and uncomfortable raw honesty, but there’s also little opportunity to care about a man who pushes everyone, including us, away.
London photo: the wisdom of Yoda
Good advice from my local Vue cineplex.
Where Are the Women? Sisters
Two screwed-up female protagonists, a female villain, and humor with a female perspective. This is what we need to see more of at the movies.
