Child 44 movie review: Stalin glance
Overly complicated yet somehow anticlimactic, and constructed more with pat Hollywood pomp rather than the authentic grit it demands.
finally, someone is thinking of the men in Hollywood
Make it fair, people. #MakeItFair. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Monsters: Dark Continent
Even grading on the “Women exist only to support men’s stories” curve, women are treated abysmally here. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Monsters: Dark Continent movie review: war movie is hell
Suffers from a terrible case of cinematic aphasia. Clearly thinks it’s saying something important and deep, but makes no damn sense at all.
Where Are the Women? Alex of Venice
Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s lawyer, wife, and mother reflects realities of modern women’s complicated and harried lives that movies often ignore. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? A Little Chaos
For its complicated female protagonist, wifehood and motherhood and new romance are only a part of her full, rich life. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: house keepers flat
A charming vintage touch adorning a piece of real estate that now, of course, no housekeeper could possibly afford.
a few thoughts about Game of Thrones S05 E02 (“The House of Black and White”) and open thread
A girl will not be deterred…
Alex of Venice movie review: no mess like home
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is eminently relatable in a compassionate, human-scaled movie of the sort that movies have almost forgotten of late.
London photo: none of yer fake king kebabs here
In Wood Green.
