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Beautiful and heartbreaking. A beguiling portrait of love, grief, and pragmatism that unites father and son, built up via tender moments of the most ordinary sort. James Norton’s performance is revelatory.
Ridiculous excuse for a thriller — obvious, preposterous, ultimately banal — piles on psychological absurdities as it builds from a maddening middle to an enraging crescendo of misogynist nonsense.
In addition to my two prerecorded panels, I will pop into the live Zoom socials on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. You must buy your ticket by 5pm UK time on Friday. Please join us!
Reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, and anywhere else that sells ebooks really do help. Plus: A teaser from the book to tempt those who haven’t bought a copy yet. (Also: The serial science fiction project I’ve teased a few times is about to launch!)
If not, what will it take for you to be comfortable? Or, perhaps you’ve been going to the movies all along during the pandemic, when possible, in which case I’d ask: How safe did that feel, and were you ever worried about your safety?
Dishearteningly less concerned with giving Natasha Romanoff her own story than with setting up her MCU replacement. Superfluous, backward-looking, its bit of feminism belabored. She deserved better.
The explosive growth of our entertainment options have fractured the pop-culture zeitgeist, and now it seems as if there is little distinction between movies and, say, TV shows. Do movies still stand apart?
A deliciously badass style — part 70s grindhouse, part verité pseudo-documentary — and all-in performances are undermined by an exploitive gaze, and a combination of failed caper and failed satire.
An intriguing story with engaging performances about a compelling real-life character, but oddly inert, and can’t quite make all its many aspects gel into a wholly satisfying or wholly coherent story.
Quietly chilling. A condemnation of supposed propriety over genuine decency, and the sacrifice of children to the illusion of communal cohesion. There are no easy answers here, and no pat resolutions.
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