Where Are the Women? Spooks: The Greater Good (aka MI-5)
Women hold positions of authority and power and kickassery, and yet they still get reduced to damsels in distress. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Age of Adaline
Has so little interesting happened to the female protagonist over the 80 years she has magically remained young that romance is the highlight? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Top Five movie review: funnyman black-and-blues
Writer, director, and star Chris Rock is so close to something great here, but he gives in too easily to the unchallenging and the very conventional.
London photos: Soho squatters’ demands
On the eve of a parliamentary election, squatters in Soho have a few suggestions for improving the city.
The Age of Adaline movie review: time enough for love
A pleasant and undemanding romantic drama that takes great care not to upset you unduly with strong emotion or embarrassing passion.
London photo: Ikea Tottenham
Just picking up a new Ark of the Covenant…
Boy Meets Girl movie review: a slightly kinder world
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a smarter, warmer, more honest depiction of human sexuality than this roundrobin of emotion and attraction. I love this movie.
a few thoughts about Game of Thrones S05 E04 (“Sons of the Harpy”) and open thread
Yay, women warriors!
London photo: electric sneakers
I knew this day was inevitable: the one that announced the arrival of sneakers for grownups that light up and flash with each step…
Where Are the Women? Two by Two: Ooops… The Ark Has Gone (aka Two by Two: God’s Little Creatures, aka All Creatures Big and Small)
A female coprotagonist who is not defined by her gender and hardly any specifically gendered issues tip this movie slightly into the positive. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
