AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced
Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).
Robin Hood
Robin Hood (2018) movie review: it should be outlawed
Ugly, garish, anachronistic like a small mean child playing with matches, and completely lacking in anything Robin Hood–y: there’s no fun, no romance, no virtue. Instead? Bizarre “aesthetics” and even worse politics.
Doctor Who blogging: “Robot of Sherwood”
So, the Doctor and Robin Hood walk into a spaceship… Oh my god, did I love this episode.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jan 12-18 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Mirror Mirror (review)
It’s astonishing how little crazy one needs to bring to a movie at the moment to make it leap out as fresh and distinctive.
question of the weekend: What has been your biggest or most amusing vacation fail?
I so wanted to do a Foursquare check-in from Sherwood Forest, and then eat my lunch of local bread, cheese, and rare-breed ham under a tree, like Robin Hood might have done…
Ironclad (review)
James Purefoy as a disillusioned Templar is as bleakly gorgeous as the film around him…
great movie quotes: ‘Thor’
“You just made some of the most highly trained professionals in the world look like minimum-wage mall cops. That’s hurtful.” –Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) to Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and more…
Fast Five (review)
I’ve gotten behind most of the Fast & Furious movies because they’ve been packed with thrillingly staged action and peopled with protagonists who walk that bad-boy line cagily enough to make rooting for them a guilty pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless. But something is off in Fast Five. There’s something deeply unpleasant about this latest flick that prevented me from enjoying all the stuff blowing up real good.
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
