AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced
And we have winners!
Olivia Wilde
OFCS 2019 awards winners announced
And we have winners!
Richard Jewell movie review: innocent man, guilty movie
Cluelessly simplistic rendering of a 1990s media injustice ignores all the context in which it happened and demonizes the one journalist who acted professionally. Fails even as a conservative screed.
I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again TONIGHT, Saturday, June 15th
Listen online or on actual over-the-airwaves radio. Imagine that.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire May 27–31
Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, and McKaley Miller star in horror thriller Ma; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
movies by or about women opening US/Can May 22–24
Jill Magid directs documentary The Proposal, about her own performance-art project; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Booksmart movie review: these kids today, with their academic overachievement and their niceness…
A rare treat: a perfect film. Smart, funny, wise, sparkling with wit both visually and in its snappy dialogue. A self-assured directorial debut from Olivia Wilde, confident and effortless. Pure joy.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 27-29
Mary Kay Place stars in drama Diane; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Christmas with the Coopers (aka Love the Coopers) movie review: familial torture
Glossy Hollywood automatons sleepwalk through family dynamics full of forced quirkiness, excruciating cuteness, and phony emotion. Absolutely cringeworthy.
The Lazarus Effect movie review: flatlined horror
This is a remarkably inert movie: unscary, unexciting, and so obvious that it announces how obvious it is going to be in advance.
