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at the 20th anniversary of ‘Titanic,’ where are all the knockoffs?

Wed, Nov 29, 2017
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We should be absolutely sick to death of all the cash-ins, pseudo-remakes and imitators. Where are they?

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I am *so* behind on reviews

Fri, Oct 06, 2017
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There are never enough hours in the day, and this gets worse during a film festival…

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I need a new bingo card…

Thu, Oct 05, 2017
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…one to track Terrible Ways to Treat Women Onscreen.

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I rewatched the 1990 ‘Flatliners’…

Fri, Sep 29, 2017
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…and I livetweeted it.

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doc ‘Chasing Asylum’ has background on Trump’s “dumb deal”

Thu, Feb 02, 2017
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It’s an Australian documentary called Chasing Asylum…

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more men I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with in movies

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
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Update! Another year, another slate of films proving there is almost nothing that men can do, think, or be that The Movies will not deem worthy of a story.

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why I am done with fantasy that abuses women in the name of “realism”

Mon, Jun 15, 2015
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I am looking at you, Game of Thrones. (But not you alone.)

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how to pretend a movie is not about a woman (because who likes Milla Jovovich anyway?)

Thu, Jun 04, 2015
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Why is the U.S. marketing for Survivor pretending that Milla Jovovich is not the protagonist of the film?

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why do little girls like princess stuff so much?

Mon, Feb 09, 2015
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The answer is ridiculously obvious, in fact…

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how movies fail girls and women (fans and filmmakers alike)

Mon, Nov 24, 2014
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Girls and women love movies just as much as boys and men do. But it’s a love that gets thrown back in our faces by 95 percent of films.

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