The radical notion that women like good movies
The ladies of Sex and the City on their way to the wedding This is a guest post by Amanda Morris. “Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York City in search of the two Ls: Labels and Love,” goes the opening voiceover for Sex and the City: The Movie. These words set the … Continue reading “Wedding Week: ‘Sex and the City’: The Movie We Hate to Love”
Written by Rachel Redfern ***Spoiler (or more aptly called, rumors) alert With the passing of one great HBO show comes the dawn of a new one. While we all cry for the season finale of Game of Thrones and the subsequent nine months without Peter Dinklage, it means now we have True Blood to … Continue reading “‘True Blood’ Season Six Kick Off!”
Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) have their first kiss Written by Lady T. This year’s season of New Girl introduced a sitcom plot that fans and audience members anticipate and dread in equal measure: the BIG KISS between two lead characters, and the will-they-won’t-they dynamic that followed. Hooking up the two lead characters … Continue reading “How ‘New Girl’s Jess and Nick Avoided Common Rom-Com Pitfalls”
Orphan Black poster This is a guest post by Ms Misantropia. Last Saturday was the season finale of BBC America’s Orphan Black, a fast paced Canadian sci-fi series about human cloning. The show’s main protagonist, Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), is a street-wise orphan just returning to Toronto after having spent a year abroad. She barely … Continue reading “The Male/Female Gaze on BBC America’s First Season of ‘Orphan Black’”
Movie poster for Bernard and Doris This is a guest post by Margaret Howie. But the question, again, is do you ever really want to ever be intimate? If you do, then it might as well be this person. It’s not about gender. It’s not about race, or age, or anything. The hurdle is intimacy. … Continue reading “The Butler, the Billions, and ‘Bernard and Doris’s Broken Hearts”
A Girl and A Gun movie poster Written by Amanda Rodriguez Trigger Warning Cathryne Czubek’s A Girl and A Gun is a powerful documentary that broadly surveys the incendiary topic of women and firearms in America. The film shows us the many sides of women and gun ownership, including safety and self-protection, competitive sport, family … Continue reading “‘A Girl and A Gun’: A Look at Women and Firearms in America”
Let’s Keep Goin’: On Horror, Magic, Female Friendship & Power in Thelma & Louise by Marisa Crawford If men didn’t rape, Louise wouldn’t have shot the rapist. If the system didn’t blame rape victims, they wouldn’t have gone on the run. If men didn’t rape, they could have driven through Texas. If the system didn’t … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: The Roundup”
This is a guest review by Steffen Loick and Ingrid Bettwieser. At a hasty glance, movies often tell stories about traveling to talk about the processes of longing. Longing for far about places, for something new, for something unachieved. As it seems, what is inscribed in the narrative of traveling in the end is the … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: Dialogic Explorations on ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ and ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’”
The story of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha continued in Sex and the City 2 (2010) This is a guest post by Emily Contois. I’m not embarrassed to admit it. I totally own the complete series of Sex and the City—the copious collection of DVDs nestled inside a bright pink binder-of-sorts, soft and textured to … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: ‘Sex and the City 2’: Hardcore Orientalism in the Desert of Abu Dhabi”
This guest post by Marisa Crawford previously appeared at Delirious Hem as part of their CHICK FLIX series and is cross-posted with permission. Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise When I think about Thelma & Louise, I have to start at the end. When Thelma says, Let’s not get caught. When she … Continue reading “Travel Films Week: Let’s Keep Goin’: On Horror, Magic, Female Friendship & Power in ‘Thelma & Louise’”
A brand new start for the young set of One Life To Live. (pictured: Andrew Trischitta as Jack, Laura Harrier as new Destiny, Kelley Missal as Dani, and Robert Gorrie as new Matthew) Written by Janyce Denise Glasper When One Life to Live got canceled at the same time as All My Children, I felt … Continue reading “On ‘One Life To Live’: Two Young Women Spiral Into Predictable Complications On Hulu’s Soap Reboot”
Angelina Jolie This guest post by Melissa McEwan appears at her blog Shakesville and is cross-posted with permission. Angelina Jolie has written an extraordinary op-ed for the New York Times, titled “My Medical Choice,” about her recent decision to have a preventative double mastectomy after learning she carries the BRCA1 “breast cancer” gene and had … Continue reading “"I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy."”
