Where Are the Women? goes to Ravencon
OMG! My feminist-rating criteria has a fancy name like The Bechdel Test! Apparently people are calling it “The Johanson Analysis.” I am floored and immensely flattered.
Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim: Uprising movie review: robot smash
Enormously likable characters make this feel like a big friendly rambunctious dog that you can’t help but get a kick out of, but it fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of its predecessor movie.
The Void movie review: retro monsters, alien mystery
It’s Lovecraft by way of The Thing and Alien in this satisfyingly schlocky 80s throwback, complete with practical FX. A genuinely eerie experience.
Crimson Peak movie review: humorous gruesome
A deliciously creepy haunted-house story. Oozes eldritch atmosphere yet plays with our genre expectations in ways that make it as funny as it is scary.
Transformers: Age of Extinction trailer: do they *promise* this franchise is about to go extinct?
Astonishingly, sexy blonde 19-year-old Nicola Peltz is actually playing Mark Wahlberg’s daughter, not his girlfriend. Progress!
things wot we learned from the 2013 summer movies
Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Aug 17-23 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
this is Hollywood’s sexism, right here
The failure of male-led action movies is NEVER a reason to stop making male-led action movies. Never ever ever.
London photo of the day: Kaiju Wolverine?
That’s what it looks like was busting out of ground in Leicester Square this afternoon
Pacific Rim review: the world goes to war
A war movie in the grandest tradition, set in a rich new fictional universe that we’re going to be talking about for a long time.
