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Passengers movie review: lost in sexist space

Sat, Dec 24, 2016
368 comments

After a few quick nods to the profoundly unethical act at its core, it shrugs it off and uses it as the basis for its fairy-tale romance. This is not okay.

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Where Are the Women? rating criteria explained (updated!)

Thu, Apr 21, 2016
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Supplementary explanations for my Where Are the Women? rating criteria. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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more men I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with in movies

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
369 comments

Update! Another year, another slate of films proving there is almost nothing that men can do, think, or be that The Movies will not deem worthy of a story.

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Doctor Who blogging: “Last Christmas”

Thu, Sep 17, 2015
11 comments

Catching up ahead of the Series 9 debut…

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Harbinger Down movie rating: red light

Fri, Aug 07, 2015
1 comment

This “homage” to 80s sci-fi/horror is a cheerless amalgam of The Thing and Alien populated by improbable characters behaving in unlikely ways.

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Exodus: Gods and Kings movie review: whites only

Wed, Jan 21, 2015
74 comments

Simultaneously the dullest and the most insulting version of itself it could possibly be. If only it had managed to be campy, that’d be something…

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The Last Days on Mars trailer: dinna go on the Martian moors

Thu, Oct 24, 2013
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“I don’t know what it is, but it’s definitely alive.” Famous last words.

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Grabbers (trailer)

Fri, Dec 14, 2012
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Get drunk = don’t get eaten by the aliens. They should have thought of this on the Nostromo…

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Sigourney Weaver did Alien like it was Shakespeare (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Nov 22, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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the first image from the Evil Dead remake is seriously not groovy (and other adventures in social networking)

Sat, Oct 20, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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