A Promise movie review: the waiting is the hardest part
This dreary, drippy period romance is sorely lacking in juicy melodrama and some sizzle among supposed stifled lovebirds.
Step Up 5: All In (aka Step Up All In) movie review: dance fever
A series of amazing music videos featuring astonishingly athletic dancers expressing crazy-hot modern choreography strung together by a flimsy narrative. Kinda like old-school Hollywood musicals were.
I did NOT call Hercules “a triumph”!
A first for me: being quoted way out of context so that (at best) some mild faint praise sounds like a rave.
London photo: angel out the window
I think this is the side of the Bank of England building…
Guardians of the Galaxy movie review: empty space
Just another rote space adventure. It’s not actively awful, but there isn’t a single damn thing in the least bit surprising or memorable about it.
London photo: bacon hypnosis
I love how even the construction warning signs for pedestrians are flummoxed by the mention of bacon. “Should we walk this way, or that way?!”
Yves Saint Laurent movie review: underdressed
This biopic of “fashion’s little prince” offers all the elegant precision of a fashion shoot — it’s beautiful, and cold — but lacks a lot of necessary context.
London photos: Lego bus stop
Outside famous Hamleys toy store on Regent Street, there is a bus stop made entirely of Lego. Entirely.
London photo: we’re all bastards
Sticker graffiti spotted in Shoreditch.
if exposure to violent media influences violence in real life, why isn’t Comic-Con a bloodbath?
The annual celebration of people with superpowers beating the crap outta one another seems to result in only a handful of petty crimes. Any ideas why?
