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weekend watchlist: men who gaslight for fun and profit

Mon, Sep 19, 2022

Plus an angry Jane Austen–esque romance, childhood witchcraft, and more. (First published August 19th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

Red Joan movie review: it doesn’t bomb, but it fizzles

Thu, Apr 18, 2019

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There’s a lot of hot-button stuff going on in this A-bomb spy drama — politics, sexism, scientific ethics — but it’s all surprisingly inert, given the literal fate-of-the-world stakes.

Spooks: The Greater Good (aka MI-5) movie review: game of moles

Mon, Nov 30, 2015

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A ridiculous, rote action thriller, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t entertaining, crammed with all sorts of macho emoting and spy nonsense as it is.

Mortdecai movie review: stinking mishap

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

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This painfully unfunny spoof of teddibly British nonsense couldn’t be less amusing if it were actually calculated to be totally laugh-free.

Closed Circuit review: cheating in the War on Terror

Fri, Oct 25, 2013

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Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall are as engaging as ever, and the film raises intriguing issues concerning the “War on Terror”; pity the plot descends into the ridiculous.

Shadow Dancer (review)

Fri, Aug 24, 2012

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Even the marvelous performances by Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough are not enough to ratchet up the drama to the level of the totally gripping, which is a damn shame and something of a puzzler…

Storage 24 (review)

Fri, Jun 29, 2012

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Crosses the line into misogy-wah! territory, and conflates an attack by an alien monster with an attack by mean ol’ bitches on innocent men who didn’t do nothin’ to deserve it.