In the West Bank, there’s a team of Palestinian women racecar drivers, and the documentary Speed Sisters chronicles a racing season with them. That’s putting it as simply as I can, because there is A LOT more happening. Let’s start with the where. As you can probably imagine, there aren’t a ton of great roads […]
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Elinor Jones writes the gossip column, THE TRASH REPORT, as well as movie reviews, and dinosaur stuff. She likes your lipstick.
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The Fast and the Historically Complex
Speed Sisters Has Cars AND Global Politics!
Speed Sisters has cars AND global politics!
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Could Refurbished Airplanes Become Portland’s Next “Tiny Homes” Movement?
NATALIE BEHRING I don’t like flying. To me, flying is the hurdle you jump to get somewhere fun. I’ve never had an attraction to planes. Airplanes are inconvenient sky buses accessed only through soul-crushing security lines we have to share with tacky people and business dicks. Airplanes are the journey; I’m more of a destination […]
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Wingin’ It
Could Refurbished Airplanes Become Portland’s Next “Tiny Homes” Movement?
Could refurbished airplanes become Portland’s next “tiny homes” movement?
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Love *Actually* Wins in A United Kingdom
A United Kingdom is packaged as a romance: The film’s poster shows an embracing interracial couple gazing out over an African sunset. And it is a romance, in that it’s about a man and a woman and they’re in love. But it’s different from your standard will-they-or-won’t-they because they get married within the first few […]
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A United Kingdom: When Love Actually Wins
Love! Drama! Politics!
Love! Drama! Politics!
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PUBLIC SCHOOL, SOCIAL DECAY! WASTED POTENTIAL. WHERE DOES TALENT HIDE WHEN SYSTEMS FAIL US AND EXPECTATIONS ARE SO LOW THEY MAY AS WELL NOT EXIST?
ARE YOU A PUSSY? NO! FIST FIGHT TIME. FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! PUNCH! FIGHT! NO PUSSIES ALLOWED. OKAY? LET’S FUCK SOME SHIT UP! LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! TEACHER CHARLIE DAY = PUSSY. OKAY? WHITE GUY. TWEED. TEACHER ICE CUBE = MAD. WHAT?! YES. STUDENT PRANKS. MAYBE FRIENDS? PRINCIPAL IS ANGRY AND INEFFECTIVE. SWEAR WORDS. LOUD NOISES. […]
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HEY BITCH: DON’T BE A BITCH
FIST FIGHT FOR FIGHTING AND FISTS AND PUNCHES
FIST FIGHT FOR FIGHTING AND FISTS AND PUNCHES!
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Fifty Shades Darker: Here’s That Beautifully Shot, Morally Problematic Smut You Ordered!
Early in Fifty Shades Darker, heroine Anastasia Steele blankly stares at her former/current lover, Christian Grey, and says, “This isn’t a relationship; it’s ownership.” She says it like that’s a bad thing. Then, at 5,000 other points throughout the movie, Christian tells Anastasia she belongs to him, and Ana smiles. If this is what us […]
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The Official Elinor Jones Review of Keeping Up with the Joneses
There are a lot of Joneses who are hard to keep up with, like Tommy Lee Jones, or Grace Jones. There are some Joneses who are moderately hard to keep up with, like Harriet Jones, or Tom Jones. Then there are Keeping Up with the Joneses’ Joneses, Tim and Natalie (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot) […]
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Keeping Up with the Joneses Versus Keeping Up with Me
(Keeping Up with Me Isn’t Very Hard)
(Keeping up with me isn’t very hard.)