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Heat

A Simple Favour movie review: suburban mom stumbles into mystery!

Mon, Sep 10, 2018
24 comments

Witty, tense, and thrilling, but also cheerful, escapist, and fun, this is a perfect cinematic cozy mystery, kept on an even keel by the irresistibly charming Anna Kendrick. Merrily absurd pure entertainment.

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Spy movie review: the other gals

Mon, Jun 01, 2015
15 comments

Does some wonderfully seditious feminist things while also being funny as hell. Finally, we are asked to laugh with Melissa McCarthy, not at her.

| 15 Comments

Wild Card movie review: hardboiled rotten egg

Mon, Mar 23, 2015
2 comments

Piles of noirish exposition get the better of Jason Statham in this unpleasantly retrograde crime drama. What happened in Vegas should have stayed there.

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only 18 percent of 2013’s US wide releases are exclusively about girls or women (and 60 percent exclusively about men)

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
5 comments

Hint: That’s not enough.

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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.

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The Heat review: buddy crap

Mon, Aug 05, 2013
16 comments

Meanspirited where it’s meant to be funny. Misogynist crap is still misogynist crap when it stars women.

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no Lone Ranger review from me for a while yet

Mon, Jul 08, 2013
4 comments

Or The Heat. Or White House Down. Or Grown Ups 2. This is because these films don’t open in the U.K. for weeks and weeks still.

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interesting stuff I found online (that you might find interesting too)

Thu, Jun 20, 2013
4 comments

20th Century Fox is embarrassed by the stars of its film The Heat; Vice thinks women writers are most beautiful when they shut up and die; the madness of George (Lucas); and more.

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The Heat redband trailer: leaving me cold

Mon, Jun 10, 2013
5 comments

When even the movies starring women make fun of men for being girly, we’re in big trouble.

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Jason Statham: Burt Reynolds for the 20teens (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Feb 09, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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