Senegal’s Feminist Hip-Hop Star
January 13, 2012 by Christie Thompson · Leave a Comment
Sarabah, the stirring documentary directed by Maria Luisa Gambale and Gloria Bremer, will premier this Sunday, Jan. 15, on Link TV. Click here for showtimes and channel information. Sarabah is ...Read More
Lesbian Films: Alien No More
January 10, 2012 by Joan Lipkin · 1 Comment
What a banner few weeks it has been for lesbian-themed films gaining general release: Albert Nobbs by Roderigo Garcia, Pariah by Dee Rees and Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same by Madeleine ...Read More
David Fincher’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Comes to Life
December 26, 2011 by Catherine A. Traywick · 20 Comments
I dreaded seeing David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In particular, I dreaded sitting through another graphic rape scene like the one in Swedish director Niels Arden Oplev‘s ...Read More
End of the World, Or End of Patriarchy?
December 16, 2011 by Janell Hobson · 2 Comments
From Independence Day to Armageddon to 2012 to Legion, movies have certainly mastered the art of fetishizing the end of the world in glorious special-effects fashion. However, 2011 marks a turning ...Read More
“Young Adult” Breaks All the Rules for Women in Film
December 12, 2011 by Danielle Roderick · 4 Comments
I love seeing disgusting women on the big screen. Every time we have an incorrect, impolite or flat-out mean woman as a protagonist, the angelic female figure of our cultural imagination loses her ...Read More
14 Questions To Ask in Choosing a Movie For Your Kids
November 29, 2011 by Margot Magowan · 5 Comments
Some of the most sexist programming in America is delivered to our kids through G and PG rated movies: yes, those movies specifically recommended by the MPAA as appropriate for children. The problem ...Read More
Breaking Dawn: Part 1—An Anti-Abortion Message in a Bruised-Apple Package
November 17, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 19 Comments
[SPOILER ALERT: This review reveals major events in Breaking Dawn.] As I sat watching the vampiric ode to white weddings that dominated the opening scenes of Breaking Dawn: Part 1, I waited anxiously ...Read More
“In Time” Wastes Time
November 2, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 1 Comment
Based on a very timely premise, the new film In Time ironically moves rather slowly over the course of its 109 minutes. Lacking a “time is running out” feel and failing to deliver an edge-of-your-seat ...Read More
Crime After Crime: So That the Imprisoned Shall Not Be Forgotten
November 1, 2011 by Holly L. Derr · 2 Comments
But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison. I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have ...Read More
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
October 25, 2011 by Aishah Shahidah Simmons · 1 Comment
I am the woman: Dark, repaired, healed Listening to you. … —Alice Walker, from her poem “Remember?” For more than four decades, Alice Walker has used the written word to make visible ...Read More
