Category: Film
Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame Keeps a Looser Rein on Her Boy Toy Than Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
What’s worse than being an aging woman? An aging woman who used to be lusted after by the masses as a film star. While this [Read More…]
Angela Lansbury as the Ultimate Frivolous Woman in Blue Hawaii
As far as movies that are hard to watch for their overt misogyny go, Blue Hawaii is one of the ones that increasingly takes the [Read More…]
Awards Shows Continue to Suffer the Girls Effect (& Only Blue Ivy Seems to Notice)
Like a time when a woman could live scot-free in exchange for being verbally abused and cheated on, it’s hard to imagine an era in [Read More…]
Ghost Has Nothing on A Ghost Story in Terms of Haunting Devotion
The budget for Jerry Zucker’s 1990 classic, Ghost, was 505.7 million dollars. The budget for David Lowery’s A Ghost Story was 100,000 dollars. When watching [Read More…]
From Meek to Mogul: The High Priestess of Print Journalism Gets Her Due in The Post
Spielberg. Streep. Hanks. Though some might slightly roll their eyes at the Oscar-baiting (which, as we recently found out, was, indeed, taken by the Academy) [Read More…]
Pretty Persuasion: A More Macabre Combo Platter of Clueless and Mean Girls
Prophetic in many ways for its key narrative plot point of accusing a man in power (well, a teacher) of sexual assault, Marcos Siega’s (yes, [Read More…]
I Love Albicocca: Call Me By Your Name
“By the time you’re thirty, your heart gives out. And each time it gets harder to start with someone new… I’ve never come close to [Read More…]
Holiday & The Family Stone: The Artless Implications of What Happens When The Sister You’re Not Dating Has It Going On
Ah, is there any more complex relationship than the one shared between sisters? Likely not. For, in contrast to the brother-brother or brother-sister permutation, there [Read More…]
Anger Begets Anger & Then Some in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri–Especially If You See It Post-Golden Globes Win
Martin McDonagh, a longtime playwright who has been quoted as saying he possesses a “respect for the whole history of films and a slight disrespect [Read More…]
Diet Misandry at Golden Globes 2018
“Here are the all-male nominees,” Natalie Portman underscores while standing next to Ron Howard to present the award for Best Director (which, by the way, [Read More…]
