The radical notion that women like good movies
Written by Robin Hitchcock Last year’s Best Actress and Best Actor Oscar winners, Meryl Streep and Jean Dujardin. The Iron Lady was not nominated for Best Picture. The Artist was nominated for and won Best Picture. It’s February, which means it is the Dog Days of Oscar Season. So for this week’s post I’ve done what … Continue reading “Fun with Stats: Best Actor/Actress Nominations vs. Best Picture Nominations”
Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give Guest post written by Emily Contois, originally published at her blog. Cross-posted with permission. Nancy Meyers’ “older bird” chick flicks, Something’s Gotta Give (2003) and It’s Complicated (2009), provide both escape and hope to middle-aged female audiences, whose views on love, sex, and relationships are both informed and complicated … Continue reading “Gender and Food Week: Trophy Kitchens in Two Nancy Meyers’ Films, ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ and ‘It’s Complicated’”
Julia Roberts as Liz Gilbert in Eat Pray Love Guest post written by Jessica Habalou, excerpts from her unpublished Master’s thesis. Reprinted with permission. “Every word in Italian is like a truffle:” Eat Pray Love and Food for Pleasure Based on the extremely popular memoir of the same name, Eat Pray Love is the … Continue reading “Gender and Food Week: The Fork Fatale: Food as Transformation in the Contemporary Chick Flick”
I often joke here about my obsession with streaming Netflix television shows from 1992. Sometimes I find myself wondering what I actually did during the nineties that made me miss so much television, and then I remember I was hanging out with truancy officers, drinking Zima underage, angsting over my first boyfriend, and coming one … Continue reading “Some Scattered Thoughts on Detective Shows and Geniuses”
Last week, I somehow ended up on Cracked.com reading a post called, “6 Obnoxious Assumptions Hollywood Makes About Women.” It’s no surprise that I ended up there, given that I write for Bitch Flicks and have a vested interest in Hollywood’s Obnoxious Assumptions, of which there are many. But. Cracked.com seriously failed with a couple … Continue reading “Cracked.com Makes Obnoxious Assumptions While Critiquing Hollywood’s Obnoxious Assumptions”
