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Great Gatsby

Burning (Beoning) movie review: same old Mr Nice Guy

Thu, Jan 31, 2019
23 comments

Oh hey it’s The Nice Guy’s Complaint done up arthouse style, meant to render male entitlement, unwarranted sexual jealousy, and personal ineffectualness as something deep and meaningful. It’s not.

| 23 Comments

Doctor Who blogging: “Death in Heaven”

Sun, Nov 09, 2014
102 comments

Steven Moffat is now stealing plots from Ed Wood-esque parodies of science fiction. Because he just rewrote Chubby Rain.

| 102 Comments

my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards

Mon, Mar 03, 2014
4 comments

Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.

| 4 Comments

things wot we learned from the 2013 summer movies

Fri, Aug 30, 2013
28 comments

Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.

| 28 Comments

The Great Gatsby mini review

Mon, Aug 26, 2013
2 comments

Alternately intriguing and infuriating: it’s very like the sort of movie exuberantly excessive Gatsby himself might have made.

| 2 Comments

The Grating Toretto, by Nick Carraway (Fast & Furious 6 review)

Fri, May 17, 2013
23 comments

A colossal affair swollen with the hubris and arrogance of men who trail the foul dust of mayhem in their wake.

| 23 Comments

for those who doubt that women can be misogynist…

Mon, May 06, 2013
67 comments

The women of After Ellen think it’s totes cute to sort other women into “shag,” “marry,” or “dump” categories…

| 67 Comments

Cinema du Sanity: the books-to-movies issue

Wed, May 01, 2013
1 comment

For your reading pleasure…

| 1 Comment

here, have a cinemagasm (The Great Gatsby trailer)

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
3 comments

But I wonder what Fitzgerald would make of it. I bet he’d love it.

| 3 Comments

question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
24 comments

Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!

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