This post contains some small spoilers, so be aware if you plan to see this movie but haven’t yet. Discussion of the movie in comments may also contain spoilers. There won’t be any major spoilers in this review.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (SPOILERS)
In which I claim to have enjoyed the film and then list many things I didn’t like. But seriously, it was fun.
Warning: spoilers present in post and welcome in comments!
Sunday Singalong: Footloose Nostalgia
It’s 25thirty years since Footloose came out, and Kevin Bacon’s still got the moves (and Jimmy Fallon has a gift for cheesy setups).
On using online petitions to harangue Hollywood
I had a lot more sympathy for the petition against the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in the upcoming Batty vs Supes movie than I do for the new petition against the casting announcement for the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Perhaps only because the petition against Affleck’s casting was better written, which makes me a snob, I know.
Signal Boost: I Am A Girl
The new documentary I Am A Girl is about to screen, briefly, in Sydney and Melbourne. The film gives six teenage girls, each in a different country, the space to speak of their lives.
Friday Hoyden: Deborah Mailman
Deborah Mailman has been one of Australia’s most beloved actors for a couple of decades now, despite managing to look twenty only recently in the Sapphires.
Our best sign yet that we are doing something right.
Content note: child rape.
Didion at Feminéma, who has just become my new favourite person, has written a response to comments made by Roman Polanski at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, where he continues to be welcome.
Marry, Shag or Cliff? Sean Bean edition
Remember the rules? It’s been a while: you must choose one of each of the three candidates to match each fate. No skipping any.
Or you could just talk about your favourite entertainments, since this is just a hook to hang some pop culture on. How about this awards season, eh?
Friday Hoydens: Chihiro, Ofelia and Coraline
Last night my family sat down together to watch Coraline, and I found myself instinctively grouping it with two other films centred on little girls navigating dark and strange fantasy lands, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.
Film review: Silver Linings Playbook
This is a feast of a film, a comedy-drama-romance of families, friendships and forgiveness which sparkles with subtly dazzling restraint, studded with troubling emotions and snort-out-loud humour.
Hoyden About Town 