from Facebook: Hollywood forces women to literally phone it in
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Kate Hudson
from Facebook: when male film journalists mistake talking about their boners for lucid, informative, intelligent discussion about movies
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Rock the Kasbah movie review: whitemansplaining, the movie
Behold Bill Murray as the white savior barreling into a foreign land and teaching the ignorant natives how to be better people. Obnoxious and tone deaf.
question of the day: What was the most sexist movie or movie moment in 2011?
Yesterday’s QOTD was about a feminist net positive: the most kickass female action character of 2011. Today, we go the other way…
headlines that hurt my eyeballs
All at Google News right now…
terrible movie quotes: ‘Something Borrowed’
“Come on, Rachel. You’re 30. You can’t afford to be picky.” –Darcy (Kate Hudson)
Something Borrowed (review)
The genre always assumes we’ll sympathize with ugly, soulless, personality-free women doing terrible things to the people they supposedly care about in the pursuit of a wedding, because what is more important than landing Mr. Right, right? But even grading on that rom-com curve, this is a disgusting movie.
‘Priest’ screens for some U.K. critics (but not all); ‘Something Borrowed’ gets no screenings
I’m gonna be spending much of my day running around catching up with two new wide releases here that I was not able to see in advance…
A Little Bit of Heaven (review)
I had no idea colon cancer was so much fun! You get to lose weight… without even trying! You get to giggle your way through your first exam with your doctor: mostly cuz you’re ticklish, but also, he’s just really really cute, with a foreign accent and everything! It is so fantastic to be dying! Call it the Ass Cancer Life Plan. Every modern girl needs it.
trailer break: ‘A Little Bit of Heaven’
Ah, it’s like Love and Other Drugs, except Kate Hudson can’t commit after she develops a fatal disease, instead of before.
