Two Days, One Night movie review: on the coins of a dilemma
A genuine horror story, sweaty with a palpable ring of truth about the unending fear that accompanies life on the knife edge of financial despair.
Year: 2015
London photo: street layers
In Spitalfields.
Where Are the Women? How to Train Your Dragon 2
This is how you portray women in a film with a male protagonist: as existing as people in their own right not defined solely by their relationship to him. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Guardians of the Galaxy
Kudos to the film for including more than one token women in its mix. Too bad the (male) CGI cyber-raccoon is more fully realized than any of them are. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
this is why Where Are the Women? is so necessary
Yet more solid proof of a major problem with how women are represented onscreen. Not that we needed it… [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: hashtag Jesus!
Graffiti for God.
Where Are the Women? Jupiter Ascending
This is how you squander a female protagonist: Don’t let her make any decisions about her own life and make sure she is in constant need of rescue by a man. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
why do little girls like princess stuff so much?
The answer is ridiculously obvious, in fact…
Where Are the Women? The Lego Movie
The only woman is shuffled aside as hero in favor of a doofus guy… and then she’s reduced to a joke about how badly she’s being treated. Har har? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Peter Jackson would have been better off, if he was worried about how women are represented on film, just leaving his Hobbit female-free. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
