Cop Secret movie review: cold fuzz (#LFF2021)
Absolutely hilarious Icelandic sendup of action buddy cop movies. Knowing, sneaky, and deliciously deadpan, upending toxic masculinity and elevating the usual subtext of the genre to the overt text.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl in the Spider’s Web movie review: an itsy-bitsy reboot
A rote crime action thriller — very car chase! such gunshots! — that drains its protagonist of much of the raw power that has made her so fascinating in the past.
Gone Girl movie review: proof of wife
Ruins itself as even high-toned cinematic junk food when its justifiable cynicism morphs into something manipulative and dangerously disingenuous.
Doctor Who thing: too many girls for the Doctor to cope with
So, if it’s not weird enough that Lisbeth Salander, Hermione Granger, and Bella Swan are sharing a house, look what happens when the Doctor shows up…
Dead Man Down (trailer)
I’ll watch Noomi Rapace and especially Colin Farrell in anything, so I’m looking forward to this. But…
A Royal Affair (review)
Socialism as cool and sexy and radical? Is this a fantasy realm? No, it’s 250 years ago.
clearly, Loki is Lore…
Loki is not the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as someone on the Internet seems to think…
question of the day: Has the era of the female hero arrived?
Katniss Everdeen. Snow White. Lisbeth Salander. Are we finally starting to see heroine’s journeys?
your David Tennant-as-a-pirate photo of the day (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
The Artist will have a good night (and other Oscar predictions)
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards…
