The radical notion that women like good movies
This guest post by Ela Eke-Egele previously appeared at Black Feminists and is cross-posted with permission. The film is a romantic comedy based on Steve Harvey’s book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. It follows four couples and each woman is dating a different type of man as defined in the book, “The … Continue reading “Guest Post: Movie Review: ‘Think Like a Man’”
Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis in Ted. As I’ve written on Bitch Flicks before, I’m not a fan of Seth MacFarlane’s work. I must admit, when I selected his feature-film debut Ted for my in-flight entertainment during my long trip back to the States for Thanksgiving, I was expecting it to be a diverting “hate … Continue reading “Damning ‘Ted’ with Faint Praise”
One of our favorite things to do here at Bitch Flicks is to spotlight and support female directors. It’s an established fact that the amount of female directors in Hollywood is substantially less than that of their male counterparts: roughly 5% of big-grossing films are directed by women. However, while the numbers are small in … Continue reading “Director Spotlight: Anne Gyrithe Bonne”
DVD Cover Art for The Last Unicorn Warning: Spoilers ahead I was probably 6 or 7 years old the first time I saw The Last Unicorn. And while I thought it was pretty, I found it incredibly boring. It wasn’t until much later in my life that I rewatched it and understood why it was … Continue reading “‘The Last Unicorn’ Is The Anti-Disney Fairy Tale”
M (Judi Dench) in Skyfall Warning: Spoilers ahead! For fifty years, James Bond movies have varied wildly in quality, but not quantities. There’s always been plenty of punching, driving, drinking, smooth-talking, and seducing. This year’s release, Skyfall, features the fetching Bérénice Lim Marlohe and a blond-mopped Javier Bardem. But director Sam Mendes has done something … Continue reading “Guest Post: ‘Skyfall’: It’s M’s World, Bond Just Lives in It”
The 2011 Norwegian film, Turn Me On, Dammit! is, in a word, excellent. In the world of about a thousand American Pie films and cliched male teen sex comedies that usually revolve around bathroom jokes and well-endowed foreign exchange students, Turn Me On, Dammit! follows a more female centered theme that is as insightful as … Continue reading “Please, ‘Turn Me On, Dammit!’”
Bromances, buddy films, buddy cop movies, — notice a theme here? Most movies about friendship are about dudes, usually white hetero dudes. Considering the sheer magnitude of films and TV series, it’s shockingly rare how often a movie or series showcases female friendships. So we asked you: Who are your favorite female friendships? We received … Continue reading “Weekly Feminist Film Question: Who Are Your Favorite Female Friendships in Film and TV?”
But how can a film with so many actors playing so many different roles go wrong? Cloud Atlas, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, portrays the pursuit of equality in a palatable way for the mainstream – soaked with platitudes. But, due to facially disproportioned prosthetics and a failed attempt at a postmodern structure … Continue reading “‘Cloud Atlas’ Loses Audience”
By Myrna Waldron Wreck-It Ralph Movie Poster I’m an animation geek. You probably know that by now. I also have played video games pretty much my entire life. (I read comic books and play DnD too, I’m basically der Ubergeek) So when I heard that Walt Disney Pictures were releasing a Roger Rabbit inspired movie … Continue reading “‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Is Flawed, But Still Pretty Feminist”
The Final Girl Gone Wild: Post-Feminist Whiteness in ‘Scream 4’ by Jeremy Cornelius Wes Craven’s 1990s Scream trilogy completely rewrote the slasher genre in a postmodern meta-film. In March 2011, Scream 4 was released, ten years after Scream 3 was originally released, starring the original trio: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and Courtney Cox-Arquette along with … Continue reading “Horror Week 2012: The Roundup”
Warning: Spoiler Alert It seems an obvious sort of review to talk about the unexpectedly large presence of motherhood in Looper, but while I expected to have plenty to say on the movie’s women (or lack thereof) I was not expecting to see motherhood played out in such a diverse way. It’s just not something … Continue reading “The Unexpected Portrayal of Motherhood in ‘Looper’”
The Evil Dead movies are some of my all-time favorites. I love them the way you can only really love something you first saw in your teens: with nostalgia, delight, and fierce ardor. Just looking at this makes me incoherent with happiness. ;aksdjf. So I have a lot of complicated feelings about the forthcoming remake. … Continue reading “A Walkthrough of the New ‘Evil Dead’ Trailer”
