Review: The Rover
Director David Michôd’s dystopian Western “The Rover” is a Spartan, intimate affair played out over vast distances in the Australian outback. Set ten years after a global economic collapse the...
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Girlsplosion: A Stupid Explosion Movie For Women
It’s hard for us, in these enlightened days of 2023, to remember how dark the future once looked for the state of stupid action movies. Even as late as 2014, those of us who enjoyed our movies...
Fatphobia on the Great British Bake-Off
The BBC’s Great British Bake-Off is back for another season, much to the delight of those of us who have an odd fascination for food-based reality TV competitions. One wouldn’t think that baking...
Mourning Robin Williams
When someone so iconic, so imprinted on the DNA of our popular culture and personal memories like Robin Williams dies we automatically think that the professional obituary writers remember every...
Looking Back at Mad Max, Looking Forward to the Apocalypse.
“My name is Max and my world is fire and blood.” Oh boy if that line doesn’t get the gasoline flowing into the old V8 engine and have you reaching for the American Football shoulder pads,...
Review: CW’s The 100
The CW’s The 100 has become bizarrely compelling for me in a way I totally didn’t expect. Every time a new science fiction show crops up on the horizon, I quiver with excitement, hoping that it...
Why Do Women Play Peter Pan? Allison Williams Takes On a Trouser Role for NBC’s Peter Pan
NBC is once again venturing into musical territory with a production of Peter Pan, and the internet is abuzz over the casting of actress Allison Williams in the title role. She’s certainly got the...
Guardians of the Galaxy: A Different Kind of Marvel Movie?
“Guardians of the Galaxy” is being billed as a “different” kind of Marvel movie. In many ways, that’s true: It takes place in a distant part of the galaxy, and a fictional reality that’s...
Review: Venus In Fur
We’re stalking down a smart Parisian street flanked by trees. Thunder and lightning rip through the night sky like the by-product of a supernatural visit. We veer off the street towards a theatre,...
Maleficent: an anarchafeminist fairytale?
I was surprised by Maleficent. I was expecting to be sorely disappointed, given the predictability of mainstream media that leaves us low bars like, 'a single strong female character'! After the...