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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)…
…on what women in movies need to do to make their voices heard…
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young woman in possession of a good upbringing, must be in want of getting her shit rocked.
Tilda Swinton, matriarch of a ridiculously wealthy Milan family, has sex with a man not her husband. And she *likes* it. So she must be punished.
It’s as if Jane Austen and Monty Python collaborated on an episode of *The West Wing*…
First came the news of the new book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Now we learn, via the Guardian, of a new movie: Pride and Predator: Will Clark, best known for his award-winning gothic comedy short The Amazing Trousers, will direct the film, which is being produced by Rocket partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David … more…
It’s not quite movie related, except for the several lovely film and TV adaptations, but… So wonderful! What if the characters of Pride and Prejudice had had access to Facebook? If might look something like this: (There’s much more, of course.) This clever parody/pastiche is by DeeDee Baldwin, and was inspired by Sarah Schmelling’s Hamlet … more…
It’s like an actual grownup movie, all serious and important. Like you can tell how beautiful the vampires are supposed to be because everything gets slow and sparkly when they walk by — and I mean even when they’re not in sunlight LOL!
I think maybe I’ve figured out how Joel and Ethan Coen do it. How they move so effortlessly from comedy to drama, from fluffy to forceful, from silly to solemn. It’s that they don’t think about tone or genre, at least not at the beginning: they just think about a character, and let him have his lead, and see where he takes them.
While movies about people clever and engaged enough to enjoy reading for fun may, in theory, be desirable, movies about people *actually reading* are less than totally enthralling.
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