Friends with Benefits (trailer)
I’m gonna go with the doubting that they will avoid the clichés of romantic comedies…
Easy A
question of the day: If you were going to invent a new Oscar category à la the MTV Movie Awards, what would it be, and who or what would be the definitive example of a winner?
Perhaps the best thing about the MTV Movie Awards is its cheeky categories: Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Villain. The Oscars could use a few fun categories to enliven its broadcast each year…
the year in movies by and about women…
I have some stuff to say about how women were depicted onscreen this year, and how women made movies this year, over at Women and Hollywood…
female gazing at: Stanley Tucci
The Burlesque trailer reminds me that Stanley Tucci really is a total babe…
question of the day: What films deal well with teenage boys and sex?
There are, of course, many many Hollywood movies about adolescent boys, but they tend to be extremely shallow and focused only on what boys are “supposed” to want — to be totally focused on nothing but getting with a ‘hot’ girl at the expense of all else — and almost totally ignoring the emotional side of the equation.
cinematic roots of: ‘Easy A’
In Easy A, Emma Stone — in a story based on the classic novel The Scarlet Letter — learns how cruel teenagers can be when she pretends to be the sluttiest slut their high school has ever known. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
you’re not helping: Hollywood’s rediscovery of nonblond nonbimbos does not a revolution make
Blondes can’t be surly and wisecracking? Surly wisecracking girls can’t be conventionally pretty? There are no pretty, blond geek girls? WTF?
Easy A (review)
The secret is out: Hollywood knows how to make movies about authentic female human beings. It just chooses not to do so 97 percent of the time.
trailer break: ‘Easy A’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, gosh, it’s The Scarlet Letter done up Clueless style! Awesome! And ya gotta love that the slut-shaming of poor adorable Emma Stone comes about as a result of her trying to help a male friend from getting gay-bashed (though I don’t think the best way to … more…
