today is the 22nd anniversary of Flick Filosopher
On this day in 1997, I launched Flick Filosopher. Not many movie sites that were online in 1997 are still around. But me, like a fool? Still here.
#MeToo
curated: Emma Thompson’s powerful #MeToo letter to Skydance re John Lasseter’s “second chance”
The woman is a goddess and a badass.
AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced
Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).
curated: “What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era”
Manohla Dargis says it all. I could have written every word of this.
curated: the #MeToo scandal surrounding Geoffrey Rush
Australia’s defamation laws are making it a tough go for his accuser, Yael Stone…
Jane Fonda in Five Acts documentary review: the political is her personal
An extraordinarily intimate and perceptive new biography of the legendary actor and activist. Fonda reveals insecurities and anxieties that are achingly raw and very personal, but which many women will see themselves in.
Submission movie review: a hot take on gender power dynamics from opposite-world
In the moment of #MeToo, this tale of the relationship between a male professor and a young female student is howlingly out of step and outrageously tone deaf. And that’s on top of its tedious clichés.
Fifty Shades Freed movie review: no shades of gray
My Fifty Shades of Grey fantasy: Anastasia Steele gets a restraining order against Christian Grey, writes a tell-all book about him, and becomes a #MeToo/#TimesUp heroine. Mmm, sexy.
things Hollywood men could have said at the Golden Globes
These will all work at the Oscars too! Feel free to steal ’em, guys.
The Rape of Recy Taylor documentary review: meet the unheralded badass Black women of recent American history
Enraging, and eye-opening, the beginning of the antidote for how Black women’s lives get erased in America. Tells a story that we should recognize as epic.
