Spooks: The Greater Good (aka MI-5) movie review: game of moles
A ridiculous, rote action thriller, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t entertaining, crammed with all sorts of macho emoting and spy nonsense as it is.
Doctor Who blogging: “Heaven Sent”
That mind-blowing moment when the Doctor realizes what’s going on! And the next mind-blowing moment when you realize none of it hangs together!
Where Are the Women? Creed
Why couldn’t Apollo Creed’s child have been a daughter who wants to box? That would have been a true reinvigoration of the Rocky franchise.
Creed movie review: the boxing ring of truth
Feels natural and organic, not forced by the dictates of movie franchises. A smart, engaging, unsentimental portrait of male friendship and male emotion.
Where Are the Women? Bridge of Spies
Would have scored better if it had eliminated its saintly supportive wife, even though that would have left the movie with barely any women at all.
Bridge of Spies movie review: the lawyer who went out in the Cold War
Presents American hypocrisy in defense of America with the snorting derision it warrants, while also being a gripping and intense Cold War thriller.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I leave you to entertain yourself with this perennial classic…
London photo: lonely empty pub
There is something particularly sad about an empty pub.
Where Are the Women? Black Mass
Women are not people here. You’d be forgiven, in fact, for thinking that Boston between the mid 1970s and the mid 1990s was almost a lady-free zone.
Black Mass movie review: men behaving badly… again
A solid execution of a familiar tale, crammed with a likable, watchable cast. But it doesn’t have anything new to say about why men do despicable things.
