Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Credit: Vittorio Zu Salma Hayek is my new heroine. This morning at the Kering Talks (Kering is a sponsor of the festival and Hayek’s husband François-Henri Pinault is the CEO) this woman dropped epic truth bombs for about an hour. Her co-speaker Matthias Schoenaerts didn’t get to say much but his performances are speaking for him; I saw…
Disney‘s latest princess movie sounds worryingly tone deaf, provoking accusations of racism long before it’s due to go into production. Following this backlash on Twitter, the film’s screenwriter claims the movie has been misrepresent by the media.According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Princess of North Sudan is a “unique princess tale inspired by the true account…
Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) in “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios) This post discusses the plot of “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Joss Whedon, the auteur who rose from indie television sensation “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to stewardship of some of the most important movies in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, has seemed…
Luc Besson started dabbling in sci-fi once again with last year’s Lucy, but his next film will really be his big return to the genre. Besson announced on Twitter this morning that he’s started work on an adaptation of Valerian, a French comic series that’s supposed to be a mixture of space opera, adventure, and time…
May 13, 2015 3:00 PM Mad Max: Fury Road has earned near-uniformly rave reviews for being the sort of action movie that leaves other action movies wanting, creating a savage beauty from its cyber-circus freaks and their desert smash-’em-ups, and generally being a hell of a good time. However, it can’t be that much fun,…
I spend most of my time admiring and appreciating Joss Whedon’s writing skills. His feminism I can take or leave, but he’s very talented in the dialogue department: he understands why people like each other, why they love each other. He understands why they care and which parts of a story display humanity. He makes…
Some time in the middle of Avengers: Age of Ultron, I came to terms with the fact that there will never be any more decent Marvel movies. In fact, there can’t be. Some of what I have to say is going to read as genre snobbery. So let me get this out of the way:…
When a retro cartoon/toy property aimed at boys gets the big screen treatment, the studios spend hundreds of millions of dollars bringing that property to life; just look at the budgets for projects like Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Those movies might not be critically loved, or even always loved by the fans…
Look at these angry tweets sent to the director and screenwriter Joss Whedon, the man behind both Avengers movies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and a host of other beloved geek properties. @josswhedon OINK OINK YOU MISOGYNIST PIG — dickwing (@achiIIcs) May 4, 2015 I’m so glad @josswhedon won’t be around to fuck up avengers anymore….
View this image › Joss Whedon at an event for Avengers: Age Of Ultron in Seoul, South Korea, on April 17, 2015. Ahn Young-joon / AP When filmmaker Joss Whedon decided to delete his Twitter account on Monday, the day after his movie Avengers: Age of Ultron scored the second-highest domestic opening weekend ever, it…