New ‘Bitch Flicks’ Regular Contributor: Rachel Redfern

Hello Everyone. I’m Rachel Redfern, one of the new Bitch Flicks contributors and I’m incredibly excited to be doing one of my favorite things: over-analyzing and geeking out about films and TV shows. Writing reviews (and just in general expressing my opinion) is something I’ve been doing for the past few years now, mostly for Not Another Wave (as well as discussing other feminist and social issue subjects) and more recently for Bitch Flicks. Some of the reviews I’ve done here have been Snow White and the Huntsman, Prometheus, and motherhood in Game of Thrones.

I have a Bachelors of Arts in Humanities and a Master of Arts in English; during my masters degree I focused mostly on modern American literature and film, really enjoying interdisciplinary work, and after my degree, taught composition, creative writing and literature at the university level for a few years.

While I grew up in California and still consider it home, I’ve moved around a bit since then; currently, I live in South Korea where I teach English and stuff myself with Kimchi and Toblerone bars and watch way too much TV. My tastes extend into the realm of the eclectic and some of my favorites are Arrested Development, Castle, pretty much anything by HBO but specifically True Blood and Game of Thrones (ditto for BBC), and loads of old shows, Star Trek, I Dream of Jeannie, Murder She Wrote, Northern Exposure, most of which are campy and nostalgic (who else loves the original Doctor Who?).

Similarly, my taste in movies is all over the place: old movies and classics (Arsenic and Old Lace, The Odd Couple, anything with Jack Lemmon), The Last of the Mohicans, Legends of the Fall, The Producers (the original), Drop Dead Gorgeous and a vast collection of the ridiculous and poignant.

I look forward to discussing all of the above and more with you (whilst probably saying far too much myself) here at Bitch Flicks.

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