London photos: hothouse flowers
Far from just walling in London plant life of, the Barbican Conservatory is full of alien-seeming organisms that could never survive in the city outside.
Where Are the Women? Tomorrowland
An adventurous female coprotagonist and a fascinating little-girl supporting character add up to representation of young women rarely seen in studio films. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Tomorrowland (aka Tomorrowland: A World Beyond) movie review: back to the future
It gets a tad heavy-handed, but my eyes welled with tears of geeky joy at the film’s embrace of an optimism it steadfastly refuses to see as old-fashioned.
Where Are the Women? Return to Sender
Falls into a trap that ensnares too many movies about women: that they are only worth telling stories about when they are the victims of gendered violence. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Return to Sender movie review: yes, return to sender
For almost the entire running time of this movie, we have no idea what it is about. What is it trying to say? What sort of story is it trying to tell?
London photos: peaceful conservatory
The longer I walked around the Barbican Conservatory, the more at peace I started to feel in this serene pocket of jungle in the middle of London.
Where Are the Women? The Film Critic (El Critico)
The most prominent female character here is of one of the more offensive rom-com stereotypes: the manic pixie dream girl. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
The Film Critic (El Critico) movie review: it stinks!
A film critic turned filmmaker seems intent on confirming negative stereotypes about critics… and that’s before his movie gets truly unpleasantly smug.
I fixed that Mad Max poster for all the MRAs male supremacists complaining about Fury Road
IMPORTANT UPDATE! The He-Man Woman Haterz Club that is so very worried about Mad Max: Fury Road don’t like to be called MRAs…
London photo: concrete and steel greenhouse
There’s something, well, brutal in the Brutalist concrete and steel of the Barbican Conservatory…
