Assigned Viewing: The Last Stop in Yuma County (VOD/theaters)Richard Brake in ‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’ (Courtesy: Well Go USAThe Last Stop in Yuma County reminds me a bit of two of my favorite Quentin Tarantino movies, Reservoir Dogs and The Hateful Eight, in that it’s an almost perfectly executed exercise in getting a bunch of people together in a room and remorselessly escalating the tension until there’s a momentary explosion of devastating, decisive violence. “The Bechdel Test for Climate Change” is now a thing people are aware of, even if to mock it. And with the “Bechdel for climate change” test in particular, it leads to some funny consequences. Yes, this is a movie that mentions climate change. Sure, the film addressed climate change; one wonders if that’s precisely the type of address the authors of this study were hoping for.

Source: Washington Post May 03, 2024 17:28 UTC