Tag: #metoo
The Boons and Banes of Memory Erasure in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Blink Twice
Romy Schneider once said, “Memories are the best things in life, I think.” But are they, really, if some of them serve only as a [Read More…]
Zoë Kravitz Aims to Open Eyes With Blink Twice
As a film whose working title was Pussy Island, it’s to be expected that the subject matter of Blink Twice is “controversial.” That is, if [Read More…]
Millennial Mindfuck, Or: Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
For many millennials living in the U.S., Nickelodeon wasn’t just a staple of growing up…it quite literally raised a generation. With the curtain presently being [Read More…]
Penn Badgley Confirms What You Already Knew: It’s A Sexless, Sexless, Sexless, Sexless World
There are some who have speculated that we live in such a sexless time because of technology. Not just because porn made the transition to [Read More…]
2015 Was A Lonely Time For Those Trying To #MeToo Before It Existed: Luckiest Girl Alive
It’s easy for many to forget how different things were before the end of 2017 when it came to speaking openly about sexual assault. Most [Read More…]
Patriarchy Is… Bill Cosby Being Released the Same Day Britney Spears Is Denied Some Form of Freedom
As Olivia Rodrigo recently said in song form, “It’s always one step forward and three steps back.” That statement never seemed to be more apropos [Read More…]
The Assistant: A Micronomic Look at the Ripple Effect of Ignoring Abuse Pre-#MeToo
As Kitty Green’s debut feature (after releasing three documentaries, including Casting JonBenét), The Assistant feels like a petri dish of a sociological study on the [Read More…]
Scream 3 Might Just Be More Eerie Than All the Rest For Its Meta Harvey Weinstein Factor
With Kevin Williamson’s indelible imprint on Scream and Scream 2, there was no denying that the script for the third installment would be doomed without [Read More…]
The #SheDominatedMeToo, #SheTheShrew Movement
There was a time, long ago now, it seems, when the notion of a woman raping a man was completely and utterly unfathomable. In the [Read More…]
Monica Lewinsky Is Finally Getting Some Vindication, Or: It Was Just A Blow J (Or Two Or Three Thousand…Whatever Oral Happens)!
Monica Lewinsky isn’t having it anymore. It being the constant stigma of being treated like little better than street trash whenever mention of her name [Read More…]
