I’ve been thinking a lot about women and power. J. and I went to see John Carter last week, but this isn’t really a rant about John Carter, which has its own issues. What particularly struck me was when J. pointed out that he was surprised to see so many women background characters in the […]
Every once in a great while, somebody makes a movie just for me. I’d grown so accustomed to seeing bad movies that I forgot they actually made good ones. That’s why Hanna came as such a surprise. Hanna is the story of a girl who’s grown up in the woods in the far north, raised
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A little stunned that the first woman to win Best Director won in 2010. That’s two-thousand-and-ten, people. At least this happened before the flying cars?
J. and I have nearly finished the first full season of Farscape. Last night, he looked up some actors on IMDB to see what else they’d done, then came back into our room and said, deadpan, “Did you know that most of the actors are Australian?” Oh, J….
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Nice little feel-good movie with all the right cliches (for most of the movie, I felt like I was watching Bend it Like Beckham) – but it nicely jettisons the not-so-nice cliches. This is a girl power movie, and it doesn’t mistake itself for a rom-com (thank god). It may be the only movie I
Oh, the Alistair love! BioWare writers do know how to woo the geek girls (me included. I did, uh, in fact, do a google search on this topic which led me here for, uh, personal reasons?). We’re always around playing your games, you know, you just don’t hear about it until we finally get something
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Short animation based on the Ray Bradbury story of the same name.
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… and why it’s still assumed that every audience member is straight, white, upper-middle class, and male. WGA report examining employment and earnings trends for writers in the Hollywood industry: 2009 Executive Summary (.pdf)2009 Hollywood Writers Report (.pdf) (via deadbrowalking)
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