All About Steve (review)
Memo to Sandra Bullock, star and producer of *All About Steve*: When people complain about how there aren’t enough roles for “older” women in Hollywood, I don’t think they were thinking that this was the solution.
hollywood hates women
time-traveling husbands are implausible, but aliens who like cat food aren’t?
Plus: Roger Friedman just now noticed how Hollywood hates women? Yup, it’s another installment of The Week in Women, over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
The Ugly Truth (review)
I’m trying to figure out when ‘romantic comedies’ turned into ‘let’s throw two really despicable and unpleasant people together in the first act so they can hate on each other through the second act until they magically fall in love in the third act.’
The Proposal (review)
Stupid narrow-minded provincial Alaskans? Hilarious! Especially when they’re horny white grandmas appropriating native Inuit culture for their own use! Stupid narrow-minded provincial New Yorkers? That’s our heroine!
My Life in Ruins (aka Driving Aphrodite) (review)
A steaming pile of stereotypes and sitcomery, a pathetic excuse for a comedy, a romance, and a movie.
trailer break: ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Lovely: end on a joke about the accidental and inappropriate touching of penis. That’s some class, right there. Oh, and the Scrat has been male all along, has it? Of course it has. All animals are by default and assumption male. We all know that the only … more…
trailer break: ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I think they should have just called it Connor Mead Is a Huge Asshole and been done with it. Also, they might have avoided incurring the wrath of Charles Dickens, whom I hope rises from the dead and goes on a zombie rampage throughout the boardrooms of … more…
Miss March (review)
If you wanted to explain to a mentally challenged hamster about the virgin/whore dichotomy, you could do worse than to show it *Miss March.*
The Last House on the Left (review)
Actually worse than all the other horror flicks of recent vintage that assume that the audience is a vicarious sexual sadist.
The Women (review)
And I thought the *Sex and the City* movie was appalling.
