Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A US critic who claimed that “women don’t get Goodfellas” has been at the centre of a Twitter storm after his article was published yesterday. In a piece called Women are not capable of understanding GoodFellas, Kyle Smith, the New York Post’s chief film critic, refers to women as “the sensitivity police” who would disapprove…
Photo A scene from “Jurassic World.” Credit Universal Pictures Clomp, clomp, clomp — here it comes, another new blockbuster ready for its shock-and-awe ch-ching close-up. With its global brand recognition, “Jurassic World” comes with more muscle than the average big-ticket behemoth, one that’s been built on best-selling novels, three earlier flicks, theme-park attractions and the…
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So by now we’ve all seen Mad Max: Fury Road at least once and have had our faces melted off. If you haven’t, stop what you’re doing and go see it. Then come back and read this. Or proceed with caution. Spoilers be near. Writer/director George Miller has been somewhat fast and loose about the…
Mad Max: Fury Road has reached that critical point on the internet where a tsunami of critical and popular appreciation begins to hit the breakwaters of both informed dissent and insincere contrarianism. To be clear, it would neither be interesting nor desirable to have uniform, monolithic appraisals of film or culture of any kind, and…
Power needs a critic. But a paradox mars criticism of the ascendant technological elite who are seeking to remake our lives: The people who understand technology well enough to criticize it tend to adore it uncritically; the critics are often Luddites who struggle with their toasters. It is notable, then, when a techie insider steps…
Get a closer look at Wonder Woman’s costume in Batman v Superman. AKA Jessica Jones gets a title change. Once Upon A Time is looking to cast some Arthurian legends. Plus, a teeny bit of new Ant-Man footage, Julie Benz teases Defiance, and Doug Jones want to return to The Flash. Spoilers Now! Jurassic World…
As you know, Superman is wildly protective of his Clark Kent identity. What you might not know is exactly how far this alien nutbag is willing to go to protect that secret. For example, above. You see, in the ’50s and ’60s, no comic book writer had any idea how to create an adventure for…
On Tuesday, Joyce Carol Oates, the American author whose Twitter feed is an jewel box of absurdist, vaguely offensive half-thoughts, showed her stripes as a true conservationist. Oh man, I bet that guy is so humiliated and will never post to another trophy hunting message board again! Just kidding, the animal in that picture is…