imagine if men were all but invisible onscreen…
…Kathryn Bigelow is a man, baby! And more. Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular weekly column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
Month: February 2010
Sandra Bullock, Oscar nominee?
I’m quoted pretty extensively in this NewsObserver.com piece about Sandra Bullock and her Oscar nomination for The Blind Side. A link to FlickFilosopher.com would have been nice…
retro trailer: ‘Blonde Pickup’ (aka ‘Racket Girls’)
Take a look back at an old trailer… Salacious yet feminine! Naughty yet ladylike! Cautionary tale for innocent young wowen! Sensational entertainment for curious young men! Blonde Pickup (aka Racket Girls) is available on Region 1 DVD as part of the package Wrestling Women USA from Amazon.com and from Amazon.ca and as an “experiment” in … more…
February 26: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but soldiers in gas masks have your town surrounded and will shoot on sight if you try to leave. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on … more…
screencap Friday– oops, Saturday: what the flick? #112
Friday Saturday fun! (I totally forgot to post this yesterday — sorry!) Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming … more…
John Barrowman serenades the Doctor, an Icelandic blockbuster, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ a disaster?, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
watch it: the 2/27/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Obviously, the Olympics with its international competition and accompanying bragging rights is a kind of ritualized war. Here’s an idea: Could we perhaps actually replace war with the Olympics alone? I mean, if two countries have a beef over, say, natural resources or territorial rights, does it really make any less sense to leave the … more…
question of the weekend: Fortune cookies: what the hell?
Last night I was the recipient of the downright weirdest fortune out of a faux Chinese cookie ever: “Maybe you can go to the moon in the next century.” Or it might have been “Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century.” I thought I’d saved it, but now I can’t find … more…
watch it: “After The Rapture Pet Care Introduction”
It’s the first cat (and dog and parrot and ferret) video of the End Times: Stupid God, won’t let our pets be raptured! But will you really trust a heathen atheist unsaved pagan — or even an unraptured Christian (they must have done something wrong) — to look after Mr. Snuggles after you’ve been transported … more…
