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Where Are the Women? Ant-Man

Mon, Jul 13, 2015
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Runs right up to the notion that a woman could plausibly play the central heroic role but then backs off to engage in male-centered business as usual.

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Ant-Man movie review: superhero reduction

Mon, Jul 13, 2015
80 comments

Marvel’s tiniest hero stars in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s smallest movie so far, one that loses Paul Rudd’s charm among familiar comic-book action.

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London photo: the whole city is tennis-mad

Thu, Jul 09, 2015
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This entire city goes insane for tennis during Wimbledon fortnight.

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Where Are the Women? Ted 2

Thu, Jul 09, 2015
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To add insult to the usual injury, one of the two female characters here is defined solely as the wife of a male protagonist… and he’s not even human.

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Ted 2 movie review: Hasbro-mance

Thu, Jul 09, 2015
9 comments

Is the man who sang “We Saw Your Boobs” at the Oscars one to give us a touching story about civil rights and human dignity? Take a guess..

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does film criticism have a future?

Thu, Jul 09, 2015
7 comments

As you may have already heard, film criticism site The Dissolve announced yesterday that it was shutting down…

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something new at the bottom of my reviews…

Wed, Jul 08, 2015
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…though you can pretty much ignore it. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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I introduce IndieWire readers to the Where Are the Women? project

Wed, Jul 08, 2015
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Pop over and give ’em some traffic, if you would (and maybe leave a comment)… [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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London photo: many cranes

Mon, Jul 06, 2015
2 comments

Someday London will be finished. That day has not yet arrived.

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Where Are the Women? is dead — long live Where Are the Women?

Mon, Jul 06, 2015
4 comments

The six-month Kickstarter period for Where Are the Women? has now ended. But I’m going to continue with the project through the end of the year. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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