London photos: peacock Christmas lights
On ritzy Bond Street.
Janis: Little Girl Blue documentary review: the painful soul of the music
A compassionate, intimate unpacking of the legend of Janis Joplin that reveals the troubled influences on the force-of-nature singer she willed into being.
London photo: Disney Christmas tree horror
The Disney Christmas tree at St. Pancras train station. I’m afraid it may be a terrible lure intended to draw unsuspecting children into an unholy maw.
Sherpa documentary review: go tell it on the mountain (LFF 2015)
Captures a burgeoning revolutionary spirit among a people who have been ignored, when they aren’t being taken advantage of, for too long.
Where Are the Women? Christmas with the Coopers (aka Love the Coopers)
While there are plenty of women here, nearly all are defined through their relationships with men or by the romantic expectations placed upon them.
Christmas with the Coopers (aka Love the Coopers) movie review: familial torture
Glossy Hollywood automatons sleepwalk through family dynamics full of forced quirkiness, excruciating cuteness, and phony emotion. Absolutely cringeworthy.
London photo: time to get Christmas started
Pub garden turned Christmas tree sales lot.
London photos: wine by the sip
At wine merchant The Sampler in Kensington, you can buy tastes of wine by the sip, gulp, or quaff.
Where Are the Women? The Letters (aka Letters from Mother Teresa)
A female protagonist who battles to wrest authority and agency for herself from a male-dominated institution is the sort of story we need more of.
The Letters (aka Letters from Mother Teresa) movie review: utter nunsense
A fatuous argument for Mother Teresa’s sainthood; credulous and willfully ignorant, and disregards everything about her beliefs that was nasty or skeptical.
