Maleficent: Mistress of Evil movie review: mistress of what now?
An apparently unfairly maligned “wicked witch” has to be redeemed again. Anyway, bitches be evil, crazy and traumatized, or sweet dumb personality-free near-morons. You know, for kids!
Sleeping Beauty
Passengers movie review: lost in sexist space
After a few quick nods to the profoundly unethical act at its core, it shrugs it off and uses it as the basis for its fairy-tale romance. This is not okay.
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life documentary review: meet the “wise old man” of Disney
He’s a charming character, a fascinating player in cinema history. Absolutely essential viewing for Disney fans and those interested in animated filmmaking.
Maleficent movie review: fatal enchantment… you know, for kids!
Please leave your desire for a well-rounded story in the lockers provided, and keep your arms and legs inside the ride while it is in motion.
Sarah Palin supporters haven’t seen that new HBO movie, but they hate it anyway (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: How many things can you find wrong with the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue?
Too white, too thin, too interchangeable: the traditional cover featuring young talent on the rise always comes under massive scrutiny, and the ritual is now in full swing…
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…
Sleeping Beauty (review)
I despair at the feature debut of screenwriter and director Julia Leigh: she celebrates a notion that any woman filmmaker should be kicking in the nuts…
Sleeping Beauty (trailer)
Emily Browning got to play a prostitute in Sucker Punch, and now here she is again in Sleeping Beauty playing a completely different kind of prostitute.
