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I’m guesting on movie podcast SpyHards

Tue, Jan 11, 2022
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I join special agents Scott and Cam to talk about the 2012 Kathryn Bigelow film Zero Dark Thirty.

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AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 09, 2018
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The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.

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Detroit movie review: racism 101 for white people

Thu, Aug 31, 2017
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Tense, gripping, enraging, but only about things that black Americans already know. This is a primer about racism for white people, and we must pay attention.

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a feminist film critic defends the Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet

Mon, Feb 25, 2013
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Yeah, I’m going there.

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Oscar Oscar Oscar (and other adventures in social networking)

Sun, Feb 24, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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the 85th Academy Award nominees

Tue, Feb 12, 2013
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With links to my reviews. I’ll be adding reviews of the last few films I haven’t yet covered between now and the Oscars.

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the audacity of Lena Dunham (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Jan 16, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Zero Dark Thirty (review)

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
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If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Dec 29 2012-Jan 04 2013

Sun, Jan 06, 2013
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Sun, Dec 16, 2012
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