
London photos: 84 Charing Cross Road
The setting for the wonderful novel and movie… now the site of a McDonald’s.

The setting for the wonderful novel and movie… now the site of a McDonald’s.

That a young girl’s emotions are used to tell a story about universal human experience is something new, a paradigm-smashing win for female representation.

There is joy and wonder in this marvelous mounting of a human mind, and a thrilling audacity in how it dares at such a strange and impossible thing.

Near Old Street, East London.

The only female character here may be intelligent and capable… but she is often treated as a decorative object in a way that her male colleagues aren’t.

Works for your appreciation with gasp-inducing action sequences and an ethos that has fun with its legacy while moving in a new direction.

Dreary New England noir soap about a woman uncovering family secrets is like a would-be supernatural thriller that forgot the magic and the chills.

Hilarious.

More from the Festival of Architecture…

Women suffer, but their pain is not the point of the story, and their pain is nowhere as important as the pain a man suffers as a result of women’s pain.