It’s a bug bear of mine that poorly made “male oriented” films such as the Furious franchise are marked up by the 80% male critical audience under the assumption that they are light hearted fun and need not be judged by the usual critical criteria, while female oriented films like Fifty Shades of Gray are […]
Monthly Archives: September 2015
September
05
The Aliens – Outhouse Theatre and the real. (Theatre review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Aliens Old Fitz Theatre 25 Aug to 10 Sept You can grab your tickets here Images by Rupert Reid Annie Baker is regularly touted as a “realist”, a title she doesn’t sit well with, and rightly so. In fact it is her depiction of very ordinary artifice, carefully layered phrase by phrase and gesture […]
September
01
Me Earl and the Dying Girl – Good writing is uncessesary if you tell us what we want to hear. (Film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Here’s the thing about doing something clever. You’ve got to BE clever in the first place, otherwise your flash of lightning you think separates you from the rest of the population exposes you as nothing other than egoistic and naively entranced with your mind’s ability to function at the most rudimentary level. This is a […]
Lisa Thatcher 