Southpaw movie review: punch drunk and disorderly
Clichéd, obvious, and tired. We’ve seen this story so many times before, but rarely with such a lack of appreciation for just how unheroic its “hero” is.
Where Are the Women? Best of Enemies
Though the subjects of the film are men in a male-dominated field, the filmmakers include interviews with female authorities to lend us historical context.
Best of Enemies documentary review: “the practice of malice”
A brilliant, hilarious, exhilarating look at the Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley paradigm-busting 1968 debates that changed TV journalism for the worse.
London photo: architecture for fun (Part 1)
Exhibit of playful, experimental architecture, because why not?
Where Are the Women? Big Significant Things
The most significant female character here is the male protagonist’s girlfriend, who “appears” only as a voice on the phone in a faraway city.
Big Significant Things movie review: road trip to nowhere
A leisurely, slightly absurd drive through 20something ennui that is as maddeningly diffuse as its protagonist’s state of mind.
London photo: sand artist
Sand sculptor working along the beach on the Southbank of the Thames.
Where Are the Women? Mr. Holmes
Women are necessary and present only for how the male protagonist feels about them, and how these feelings motivate him to do things for himself.
Mr. Holmes movie review: the case of the missing myth
It looks lovely and Ian McKellen is amazing, of course, but it’s not very Holmesian. I suspect Holmes himself would snort in derision at its sentimentality.
Where Are the Women? The Gallows
“Jokey” adolescent misogyny and a “she’s just the girlfriend” negatively impact the horror genre’s typically fairly good representation of women.
