movies by or about women opening US/Can Oct 11
Pamela Pettler and Erica Rivinoja cowrite The Addams Family; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Gift
spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift
The Gift takes the disgusting trope of hurting a woman to make a man feel something to a vile new low… one that reveals its ignorance about women.
“does the dog die in that movie?”
As if I’d spoil such a thing! But there’s a website that will…
Where Are the Women? The Gift
Little more than the standard woman-in-peril thriller, but worse, because it robs the woman of the bit of agency these sorts of movies usually grant her.
The Gift movie review: give it back unopened
Descends into emotional idiocy and insufficient intrigue to end in a disgusting place that presumes that a woman is an appropriate pawn in games men play.
Oz the Great and Powerful (review)
Exactly what you expect it to be. Unless you were expecting some Sam Raimi nutso. (new DVD/VOD US/Can)
trailer break: ‘Drag Me to Hell’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Or, Hell Is Other People’s Housing Crisis. Or Final Foreclosure. Or Mortgagalypse. Try it, it’s fun! It’s always cause for celebration when Sam Raimi has a new movie for us. But Sam Raimi making a big-budget horror movie? This is a new, um, creature entirely. Can we … more…
