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weekend watchlist: coming to terms with grief personal and societal

Mon, May 30, 2022
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Plus badass women and damned dirty apes… (First published April 30th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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Radioactive movie review: science, bitch

Sat, Aug 01, 2020
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Rosamund Pike is perfection in this intellectual romance, an unsentimental portrait of a woman striving to be appreciated for her mind at a time even more anti-woman than today. Feminist and flinty.

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I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again this Saturday, June 13th

Thu, Jun 11, 2020
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Topics include new movies The High Note and Radioactive, and a lot more.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 13-15

Fri, Feb 15, 2019
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Rosamund Pike stars as journalist Marie Colvin in A Private War; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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A Private War movie review: this is not fake news (LFF 2018)

Tue, Nov 13, 2018
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A moving and important portrait of legendary Times of London foreign correspondent Marie Colvin. We need more movies like this, about fearless, badass women this outrageously good at their vitally necessary work.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Nov 01

Fri, Nov 02, 2018
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Suzi Yoonessi directs dramedy Unlovable; Nosipho Dumisa directs thriller Number 37; more…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu May 10

Fri, May 11, 2018
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A thriller about a real-life female Indian spy, a documentary about a Saudi woman who fights religious extremism, and more…

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Beirut (aka The Negotiator) movie review: an American man finds absolution in the messy Middle East

Wed, Apr 18, 2018
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A same-old story of a white man’s angst, set against the “exotic” backdrop of 1980s war-torn Beirut. This brand of Hollywood myopia is tired, uninteresting, and no longer acceptable.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Mar 16

Fri, Mar 16, 2018
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Rosamund Pike hijacks a plane, Melissa Leo gets a break from prison, Odeya Rush befriends a dictator, and more…

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Hostiles movie review: white man’s burden

Wed, Jan 17, 2018
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Sure, millions of Native people dead and ancient cultures destroyed, but who has to live with that? All the good soldiers who were just following orders, that’s who. Won’t someone think of the white man?

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