trailer break: ‘Sex and the City 2’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… In my The Week in Women column this weekend, I despaired that Naomi Wolf had chosen Sex and the City’s protagonist Carrie Bradshaw as an icon of the just-ended decade… a positive icon! a feminist icon! And then I see this trailer. This is feminist? Carrie looks … more…

feminist insists she isn’t one…

…the meaning of Brittany Murphy; why Sex and the City is a poor icon for women… Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, returning from its holiday break. Enjoy.

opening in North America May 1: ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine,’ ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,’ ‘Battle for Terra,’ more

opening wide X-Men Origins: Wolverine: If you thought Wolverine was completely immune to all human frailties — I mean, we can assume he’s been smoking stogies for a century with no ill effects, right? — then you may be surprised to see what intriguing weakness he is vulnerable to… Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: You’d have … more…

the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Sex and the City: The Movie: The Wedding Collection Ultimate Collectors Edition’

Dear God, it’s full of pink. This limited edition Sex and the City: The Wedding Collection Ultimate Collector’s Edition 4-disc gift set features the 157 minute extended version of Sex and the City: The Movie Extended? Wasn’t the original torture enough? Extended with what? More whining about how men are useless pigs even as Our … more…