Attraction (Prityazhenie) movie review: when ET is dreamy
It has a spectacular opening sequence, and features a few minor tweaks to alien-invasion tropes. But the teen romance at its center reduces this to a very inconsequential first contact.
Twilight
how movies fail girls and women (fans and filmmakers alike)
Girls and women love movies just as much as boys and men do. But it’s a love that gets thrown back in our faces by 95 percent of films.
“Talk Nerdy to Me” (to sing along with)
Highly amusing.
Only Lovers Left Alive movie review: full-blooded
I want to crawl inside this movie and curl up in its lap and stay there forever. This movie is so languid and so uncoerced. I want to keep it a secret and let everyone know about it at the same time.
Fading Gigolo review: Twilight for middle-aged men
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a film that looks more like the filmmaker’s midlife-crisis wish-fulfillment fantasy than this one.
Doctor Who thing: too many girls for the Doctor to cope with
So, if it’s not weird enough that Lisbeth Salander, Hermione Granger, and Bella Swan are sharing a house, look what happens when the Doctor shows up…
Only Lovers Left Alive trailer: maybe we aren’t “supposed” to be talking about this?
Someone appears to believe they can control the dialogue about this film. Too late! People are already talking about it.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Aug 03-09 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
I’m not sure that telling men that a movie about women isn’t for them is helping
You want to reinforce the idea that women are a minority with niche interests that could not possibly be appreciated or understood by default normal human beings (ie, men)? This is the perfect way to do it.
Stephenie Meyer has found a whole new way for teen girls to be conflicted about sex (The Host review)
Did Neo come to see that the Agents had the right way of things? Did Luke eventually realize that the Empire was a stabilizing force in the galaxy? But poor Melanie is suffering from the ultimate case of Stockholm Syndrome.
