movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 28
Elisabeth Moss stars in The Invisible Man; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Playboy
question of the day: Does posing nude in ‘Playboy’ have any upsides for Lindsay Lohan?
I’m not sure this is any less demeaning than Lohan’s other recent work, scrubbing toilets the Los Angeles County morgue…
celebrity headlines I’d love to see
The Guardian’s headline about the marriage of two movie stars somehow elevates it above the level of mere gossip and turns it into something nearly shocking…
in case there was any doubt that fashion designers want models who look like adolescent boys…
Meet the hot new model who took London Fashion Week by storm…
Hop (review)
The bunny? It burns. Bad.
cinematic roots of: ‘The Virginity Hit’
In The Virginity Hit, a meanspirited teenaged boy documents — for YouTube and the whole world to see — his supposed best friend’s humiliating attempts to lose his virginity. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
defining the female gaze
In response to something I posted recently about “the female gaze,” I got an email from a male reader who appeared to believe that “the female gaze” refers to “movies women like to watch.” It doesn’t. Not even close. But his email got my thinking that perhaps I need to explain what “the female gaze” … more…
Miss March (review)
If you wanted to explain to a mentally challenged hamster about the virgin/whore dichotomy, you could do worse than to show it *Miss March.*
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Playboy: Sexiest Amateur Home Videos, Vol. 3’
Oh, dear: Every month Playboy TV producers get hundreds of video-taped submissions from girls all over the country hoping for a spot on the Playboy TV show, “Sexy Girls Next Door.” This DVD contains the sexiest home videos, just real girls in their bedrooms, in the shower, in their cars and sometimes in very public … more…
The House Bunny (review)
Sex Bomb You’ve heard the term sex bomb. Now hear this: The House Bunny is a nuclear sex bomb, a radioactive weapon deadly to all forms of life except cockroaches and — maybe — morons as catastrophically stupid as the Playboy bunny Anna Faris “portrays” here. Oh, it’s supposed to be adorable, how stupid Faris’s … more…
