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On ‘One Life To Live’: Two Young Women Spiral Into Predictable Complications On Hulu’s Soap Reboot

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”

"I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy."

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."”

Mixing Business and Pleasure: Making ‘Movement + Location’ and Staying Together

Bodine and Alexis Boling This is a guest post by Bodine Boling, originally published at Bright Ideas, the Seed&Spark blog. Here is the synopsis for Movement + Location, a crowdfunded independent science fiction film currently in post-production that I am making with my husband, Alexis Boling: Kim Getty is an immigrant from 400 years in … Continue reading “Mixing Business and Pleasure: Making ‘Movement + Location’ and Staying Together”

How a ‘Flatliners’ Ad During a Movie Showing Made This Woman Walk Out

Myrna Waldron, my oldest daughter (a regular contributor to Bitch Flicks), baby Rhiannon Roxane Waldron, and the author, their mother, Pandora Diane MacMillan. This is a guest post by Pandora Diane MacMillan and appears as part of our theme week on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Infant Loss. It was March 1997. I was at a movie … Continue reading “How a ‘Flatliners’ Ad During a Movie Showing Made This Woman Walk Out”

The Exploitation of Women in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’

Movie poster for Children of Men Written by Amanda Rodriguez for our theme week on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Infant Loss. I like Alfonso Cuarón’s bleak, dystopian cinematic interpretation of Children of Men (based on the PD James novel) wherein the world collapses after an infertility pandemic strikes, causing there to be no human births for … Continue reading “The Exploitation of Women in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’”

The “Plague” of Infertility in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’

Dire times in Children of Men as “The World Has Collapsed” Guest post written by Carleen Tibbetts for our theme week on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Infant Loss. Women can’t get pregnant anymore and nobody knows why. This the central lamentation in Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 dystopian film Children of Men, based on P.D. James’s novel. Set … Continue reading “The “Plague” of Infertility in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’”

A Big Hurray! Lunafest 2013: Short Films For, By, and About Women

The 12th Annual Lunafest Written by Janyce Denise Glasper I truly enjoyed the 12th Annual Lunafest–nine short films for, about, and by women filmmakers which has one hundred percent of proceeds benefiting local charities including breast cancer research and nonprofit women’s organizations. From five to eighteen minutes long, these nine diversified, honest, and beguiling films … Continue reading “A Big Hurray! Lunafest 2013: Short Films For, By, and About Women”

School of Rock: Where Shrewish Women are "The Man"

Written by Robin Hitchcock Jack Black in School of Rock The first decade of this millennium was a pretty good time for American culture, all in all, George W. Bush notwithstanding.  YouTube was invented, the pound symbol was saved from oblivion by hashtags, and Tina Fey got famous. But the early-to-mid aughts also brought something really unpleasant … Continue reading “School of Rock: Where Shrewish Women are "The Man"”

‘The Yellow Room’ and the Timeless Locking Up of Women’s Experiences

Written by Leigh Kolb Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” on its surface, is about a woman in the late 1800s suffering from what we now understand is postpartum depression. Her physician husband locks her away in a room–employing the popular “rest cure” of the time (which Gilman had been forced to endure)–and she slips deeper … Continue reading “‘The Yellow Room’ and the Timeless Locking Up of Women’s Experiences”

"You won’t be the first pig I’ve gutted!": The Women of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’

Written by Amanda Rodriguez I unabashedly adore Guillermo del Torro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. It’s beautifully rendered between two dark, cruel worlds. Our heroine, Ofelia, wants to escape the foreignness and brutality of her new life as the stepdaughter of “The Captain,” a cold and violent military officer hunting down rebels as part of Franco’s fascist regime … Continue reading “"You won’t be the first pig I’ve gutted!": The Women of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’”

Guest Writer Wednesday: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ Rekindles the Notion that Women Are Wicked

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) Guest post written by Natalie Wilson. Originally published at Ms. Magazine blog . Cross-posted with permission. Dorothy Gale—the girl who went to Oz—has been called the first true feminist hero in American children’s literature. Indeed, she was condemned by many readers, including children’s librarians, for daring to have opinions … Continue reading “Guest Writer Wednesday: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ Rekindles the Notion that Women Are Wicked”

Foreign Film Week: Female Empowerment, a Critique of Patriarchy…Is ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ the Most Feminist Action Film Ever?

Written by Megan Kearns. | Warning: Spoilers ahead Can an action film portray exquisitely choreographed fighting scenes, badass fully dimensional ladies, tragic romantic love and make a searing social statement? Yes, yes, yes. One of my favorite films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is an undoubtedly feminist action film with a potent gender commentary woven throughout. … Continue reading “Foreign Film Week: Female Empowerment, a Critique of Patriarchy…Is ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ the Most Feminist Action Film Ever?”