
Raze trailer: bitches be fightin’
They’re obviously using some new meaning of the word empowered that I had not previously been aware of.

They’re obviously using some new meaning of the word empowered that I had not previously been aware of.

Another day, another London Film Festival gala marquee at the Odeon Leicester Square.

I don’t even care what it’s about, I’m there.

Well, this looks depressing. Not that that’s a bad thing, of course.

Oh, this one is going to tick a lot of boxes for me: art and culture, men in uniform, World War II, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, and George Clooney.

That “in a world” voiceover narration makes it come across as a film from 70s-era Costa-Gavras (when he won his Oscars)…

…not quite predawn this morning (though it felt like it) for the London Film Festival press screening of Gravity.

This is what The Expendables hath wrought. Now we’ve got 70-year-old guys thinking they’re plausible as the toughest alpha-male badasses among the worst guys on the planet.

These kids today, with their blood feuds and their dueling and their all-night masquerade balls.

Steve Coogan, Judi Dench, Stephen Frears. So much goodness in yet another story about the inhuman awfulness of the Catholic Church. Hooray, I guess.