how movies fail girls and women (fans and filmmakers alike)
Girls and women love movies just as much as boys and men do. But it’s a love that gets thrown back in our faces by 95 percent of films.
Kickstarter
The Babadook movie review: mother of nightmares
Genuinely horrific and deeply scary in a way that draws on the most primal of emotions. A horror flick with rare emotional and psychological resonance.
Veronica Mars review: fan service included
I’ve never seen the show that spawned it, but it was still exactly what I was expecting. I am neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed by it. I am whelmed.
Doctor Who thing: Devo Spice raps about the Doctors
“The red-headed stepson of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and Eminem” has just released his collection of comedy raps entitled I Am the Doctor…
evening clickbait: I like this Kickstarter; Google Earth for Middle-Earth; John Watson’s latest blog post; music Smaug likes
Stuff I found on the Net today.
Third Contact trailer: indie “shot in London, not about gangsters”
A science fiction film! About ideas! How wonderful.
Doctor Who thing: meet trock band Time Crash
Damn, they’re good.
Best Friends Forever review: the end of the world as women see it
Smartly stylish, refracting familiar fictional events and themes through a little-used cinematic prism: that of women’s perspectives.
ya really can’t ask people to give you £25,000 for your fan fiction
“Kickstarter Pulls ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Sequel.” Of course they do.
Doctor Who thing: fans putting a mini TARDIS into orbit
Did I mention that the mini TARDIS is solar-powered, and will have a camera and communications equipment that will send back pictures of Earth from the TARDIS in orbit? Cuz that’s happening too.
