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Fifty Shades of Grey

my first death threat

Mon, Feb 16, 2015
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And it’s over my review of Fifty Shades of Grey! That’s a twist I did not see coming.

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Where Are the Women? Fifty Shades of Grey

Sun, Feb 15, 2015
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Woman as a passive sexual object of a man, depicted via a male gaze: it’s everything that is wrong with how Hollywood represents women onscreen. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Fifty Shades of Grey movie review: neurotica

Sun, Feb 15, 2015
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A charm-free hero with control issues and a passive, fretful heroine have coy and tediously vanilla pretend-sex. This is meant to be erotic?

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I know you’re all dying to know what I think of 50 Shades of Grey…

Thu, Feb 12, 2015
25 comments

But if there was a press screening of the film in London, it was kept a bigger secret than Christian Grey’s Red Room.

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Old Fashioned movie review: how would Jesus date?

Thu, Feb 12, 2015
71 comments

Old-fashioned is right. Like how the Taliban is old-fashioned. Behold some pretty despicable passive-aggressive othering of women in the name of “respect.”

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Gone Girl movie review: proof of wife

Mon, Sep 29, 2014
153 comments

Ruins itself as even high-toned cinematic junk food when its justifiable cynicism morphs into something manipulative and dangerously disingenuous.

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fun stuff from this week’s search terms, or how people found FlickFilosopher.com

Sun, Nov 18, 2012
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The things people Google. Sheesh…

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get yer official 50 Shades of Grey branded bondage merch (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Nov 06, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan slash fan fiction is a real thing (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Aug 23, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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how to reboot The Dark Knight: don’t (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, Jul 09, 2012
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