At the beginning of Captain Marvel, as the logo ran–I hear Jeremy at Cinema Sins groaning and watching the second hand–the MCU did something cool. I won’t tell you what it was, because I believe realizing it as it happened was part of the experience. But I wanted to mention it and let you...
I try to watch a movie a day. Try is the keyword there, because I can’t always take the time. I have grocery shopping sometimes. But on other days, I sometimes watch two or even three movies. Over the course of a year, it balances out that I see about three hundred movies. Though...
Greta is a tense thriller starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz. It felt good to see a thriller where both the protagonist and the antagonist were female. Not since Single White Female (1992) do I remember such a line-up, and for that reason, Greta reminds me of the earlier movie. It also enjoys...
Born in 1931, Nawal El-Saadawi has lived the type of multifaceted life that seems unreal. In 1955, she graduated the University of Cairo Medical School, specializing in psychiatry. Three years later, she wrote Memoirs of a Woman Doctor. During the 1960s and the early 1970s, she worked in public service as the Director of...
