Argylle movie review: just *argh*
A vacuous multitentacled exercise in pop-culture marketing, and a crass, confused, charmless showcase for Matthew Vaughn’s goes-to-11 hyperactive “style” of unconvincing CGI and frenetic fight scenes.
JK Rowling
loaded question: what’s the best movie ever about magic?
Define magic however you like: could be supernatural magic, stage magic, or any other definition of the word you can defend.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald movie review: the crimes of this movie, though…
It certainly is MORE than the first movie: more incoherent, more confused about who its protagonist is, more crammed with contrivance and coincidence. Even the title is more nonsensical this time.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Nov 16
Nijla Mu’min writes and directs teen drama Jinn; Angela Shelton writes and directs boxing drama Heart, Baby!; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Nov 16
J.K. Rowling writes another Harry Potter spinoff; Emily Atef writes and directs a portrait of European film star Romy Schneider; more…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie review: reparo movens ad imaginem
Forget about magical creatures: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them could use some help finding itself, and in figuring out who its protagonist is.
my reads: Rivers of London and London Falling
The incredibly surface similarities between these two urban fantasy series in no way hampered my immense enjoyment of either.
who are the worst couples in the history of fiction (novels, TV, movies, etc)?
Please enjoy this anti-Valentine’s Day Question.
hey, maybe Hermione could have married no one!
I don’t mean she should all have spent her life miserable and alone. I mean, did whom any of the characters marry need to be part of the story at all?
London photo of the day: Diagon Alley (sort of)
Cecil Court, said to have inspired the wizard shopping street Diagon Alley in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.
