Where Are The Women? Timbuktu
Even in the worst circumstances for women, rebellion exists. Alas that this movie has rebellious women only on its periphery. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Song of the Sea
Adventure is for boys. What do even powerful and magical girls get to do? Merely inspire a boy on his adventure with their goodness or their badness. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Song of the Sea movie rating: green light
Prettily animated family adventure infused with Irish folklore and traditional Celtic design makes for a change of pace from slick Hollywood cartoons.
Where Are the Women? Captain America: The Winter Soldier
With multiple women who are competent professionals defined by their work first, this is a great example of good female representation in a man’s story. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Maleficent
Not the reimagining of a traditional story it purports to be: it perpetuates retrograde notions about the abuse of women as a good way to punish a man. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: is there a hole in that human skull?
Is there a word for that space on the outside of a basement flat? A patio? A below-ground terrace?
Drunktown’s Finest movie review: native voices
Infuses a familiar tale of small-town life and youthful disaffection with a crisp sense of hope teased out of Navajo tradition.
Where Are the Women? The Wedding Ringer
Women? Easily manipulated dupes. Men can tell the most outrageous lies, and women will buy it if you distract them with fairy-tale wedding fantasies. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
The Wedding Ringer movie review: manfriendwhore for sale
A festering pile of fatphobic, homophobic, sexist, grossout garbage in which men are manipulative liars but women are worse.
Where Are the Women? Blackhat
More than one smart, capable, competent woman helps drive the action… and none is defined solely (or at all!) as a mother or a lover. Hooray. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
