La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus review: get on the bus
Follow a humble yellow school bus as it is transformed into something joyous and defiant. It’s like discovering that your grandma is a secret agent.
London photo of the day: Saharan sand everywhere
Sand blown in from the actual Sahara is settling on London this week…
Cheap Thrills review: in debasement
The movie equivalent of a mean girls’ game whose only goal is humiliation. Also: a failed parable of the twistedness of the 1 percent.
Le Week-end review: la vie et le bonheur
A marvelous little unpacking of the meaning of happiness, precisely what constitutes it, and how to know whether you’ve found it.
London photo: watching paint peel
I love the textures of the peeling paint on this old ship docked near the Thames Barrier.
does spaghetti grow on trees? check out this classic BBC News report
Apparently this fooled a lot of viewers, and some people consider this the best April Fools joke ever.
47 Ronin review: they’re not having much fun storming the castle
A handsome movie in many ways, but it feels like an unpolished first draft, one that can’t quite decide how fantastical it wants to be.
London photo: an unromantic bit of London tourists never see
The A406, aka the North Circular. By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.
what it means to be a woman who loves movies
It requires an extra suspension of disbelief beyond what men have to engage in…
why “you’re only driving readers away with your paywall” is not an effective argument against a paywall (at least in my case)
If you’re not going to support my writing here, why should I care if you don’t come back?
