daily stream: maybe Mars *is* the kind of place to raise your kids…
2020’s Proxima is on Kanopy in the US, BFI Player in the UK.
Eva Green
Proxima movie review: the work of the world
Brings a fundamental new humanity to the story of those who court great danger in order to advance human knowledge. Eva Green is immense. Writer-director Alice Winocour’s compassion is achingly acute.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Jun 26–28
Lila Avilés directs and cowrites drama The Chambermaid (La Camarista), starring Gabriela Cartol; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 27-29
Mary Kay Place stars in drama Diane; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 29
Patricia Clarkson stars in writer-director Carol Morley’s noir Out of Blue; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Dumbo (2019) movie review: you will not believe an elephant can fly
The most soulless of the live-action Disney remakes yet, weighted down by too many blah characters, too much convoluted plot, unconvincing CGI, and a message that doesn’t say what it thinks it does.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children movie review: infodump, the movie
Relentlessly dull. A tour of a strange world and “characters” little more than their “peculiar” abilities isn’t enough to whip up fantastical excitement.
Where Are the Women? The Salvation
Does your movie’s plot need a nudge? Male protagonist and male villain need some feels? Why not try raping some women? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
The Salvation movie review: manifest density
Nearly Blazing Saddles without the jokes: all genre conventions with none of the fun, just your inescapable expectations met around every sun-blighted corner.
movies I can’t wait to see at the 58th BFI London Film Festival
LFF is a veritable orgy of cinema, and I love it. It’s exhausting, but I love it.
