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Linda Hamilton

Your Monster movie review: embrace the beast

Wed, Oct 23, 2024
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Sure, the humor may be bitter, the horror may be audacious, and the overriding genre may be “anti-romance.” But this hugely original, grimly delightful howl of feminine rage is actually kinda sweet.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Nov 01

Fri, Nov 01, 2019
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Kasi Lemmons cowrites and directs Harriet, starring Cynthia Enrivo; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Terminator: Dark Fate movie review: it’s back… and we don’t know why

Wed, Oct 30, 2019
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Fight the future. Change the future. Watch the future reset itself so that everything ends up much the same way anyway. Repeat. This time-travelling franchise is, ironically, stuck in the past.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Oct 23–25

Fri, Oct 25, 2019
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Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, and Natalia Reyes star in Terminator: Dark Fate; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D movie review: he said he’d be back…

Tue, Aug 29, 2017
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An action masterpiece newly remastered in gorgeous 4K (and rejiggered for superfluous 3D) reveals how fresh it remains not only technically but thematically.

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