Where Are the Women? Big Game
There is exactly one woman with a speaking role in this film, and I don’t think she has more than three lines of dialogue. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Big Game movie review: small potatoes
A kid rescues the President. It sounds like a joke movie The Onion might invent to satirize Hollywood preposterousness, but I swear to god, it’s real.
Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs movie review: dino crock
If you guessed that this is a cheap pre-Jurassic World cash-in, congratulations: you are smarter than this padded-out pile of cut-rate cinematic junk.
London photo: discovering the Barbican conservatory
I only just discovered that the Barbican has a conservatory…
a few thoughts on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (and open thread)
It’s all very grubby… which is brilliant.
a few thoughts about Game of Thrones S05 E06 (“Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken”) and open thread
The rape of a woman is horrifying because of how it makes a man looking on feel? *grrrr*
Where Are the Women? Every Secret Thing
Though the story revolves primarily around traditionally female concerns, much of the drama and mystery arises from subverting stereotypes. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Every Secret Thing movie review: skeletons in the heart
A slow burn mystery in which the secrets aren’t so much about the crimes it explores but truths of women’s emotional lives that are too often ignored.
London photo: Trafalgar Square, VE70
Unlike on the actual day of Victory in Europe in 1945, no one was in the fountains last Sunday afternoon.
The Man Who Saved the World documentary review: no nukes
Meet the crotchety, bitter old man who, back in 1983 as a crotchety, bitter younger man, refused to initiate global nuclear war. A true story!
