daily stream: welcome to the new year’s revolution…
2014’s Snowpiercer is on Hulu and Netflix in the US, Lionsgate+ and Mubi in the UK (and other services too).
Snowpiercer
The Platform (El hoyo) movie review: bold and bitter food for thought
This sci-fi dreadfest immerses you into a shocking mystery, punches you in the gut, then grips you with a wisdom that transcends its obviousness, daring you to deny that its open savagery is our own.
AWFJ 2014 award winners
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is one of the orgs for which I help choose year-end best-ofs.
spoiler alert: about the ending of Snowpiercer
I’m mystified that some people are upset by how Snowpiercer ends. Because anything else than what we get would be a tragedy on every level.
even The New York Times has given up on quality film journalism
Two well-off white men on class warfare, what’s good for women in Hollywood, and — most importantly — some movies they haven’t even seen yet.
Snowpiercer movie review: hunger train
Hauntingly grim, full of appalling ironies and awful truths. This is most definitely not the feel-good movie of the summer.
no Transformers review from me today (but it and more reviews are coming over the weekend)
Including Snowpiercer! (Which I had to cheat a little to get access to.)
