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…
Flipped
cinematic roots of: ‘Flipped’
In Flipped, a teenaged boy (Callan McAuliffe) and a teenaged girl (Madeline Carroll) in suburban 1960s America learn how tough falling in love can be. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Flipped (review)
Everything that is wrong with The Movies today in America is beautifully encapsulated in how this lovely little movie cannot find an audience in the current movie environment.
deep thought (re boys who need to grow the fuck up as story fodder)
*Flipped* is the movie *Scott Pilgrim vs. the World* wishes it was… and it doesn’t even need videogame icing to be so.
trailer break: ‘Flipped’
Looks cute enough, and it’s from director Rob Reiner…
‘Inception’ attacks ‘X-Men: First Class’; pushing back against 3D; Lisbeth Salander does not eat pray love; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused…
