Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks
What Peggy Olson From ‘Mad Men’ Teaches Us That Sheryl Sandberg Doesn’t by Michelle Dean via The Nation ‘The Host’: Less Anti-Feminist than Twilight, but Hardly a Sisterhood Manifesta by Natalie Wilson...
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Summer Movie Preview
Written by Max Thornton. Time’s relentless onward march has brought us to the end of April. In just a few days it will be the first weekend in May, which is – in the strange, terrifying minds of...
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Conspicuous Consumption and ‘The Great Gatsby’: Missing the Point in Style
The Great Gatsby (2013) Written by Leigh Kolb Critic Kathryn Schulz, in “Why I Despise The Great Gatsby,” bemoans the acclaim that the novel receives in literary circles. She says, “It is the only...
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Where Have You Gone, Sarah Connor?
Remember Linda Hamilton (playing Sarah Connor) and her guns in Terminator 2? This guest post by Holly Derr is cross-posted with permission from The Ms. Magazine Blog. Summer always makes me a bit...
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Wedding Week: Why We All Need to See ‘Bridesmaids’
Movie poster for Bridesmaids This guest post by Molly McCaffrey previously appeared at her blog I Will Not Diet and is cross-posted with permission. I keep hearing people say they aren’t going to...
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Wedding Week: ‘Sex and the City’: The Movie We Hate to Love
The ladies of Sex and the City on their way to the wedding This is a guest post by Amanda Morris. “Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York City in search of the two Ls: Labels and...
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A Letter to Hollywood: Keep Films Like ‘The Heat’ Coming
The Heat movie poster. Dear Hollywood Movie Executives, As I have driven by my local movie theater this summer, I’ve been struck by how I haven’t wanted to see most of the movies. You haven’t been...
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Cool Robots, Bad-Ass Monsters and Disappointment in ‘Pacific Rim’
Pacific Rim movie poster. Written by Leigh KolbSpoilers ahead! The theme at the core of Pacific Rim is that collaboration and trust lead to success. And while the sweeping visuals of human-team-led...
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Wonder Woman Short Fan Film Reminds Us to Want this Blockbuster
In my last post, I lamented that Marvel’s Stan Lee showed an industry-typical disinterest in creating movies about female comic book characters, especially in the interest of Marvel’s great lineup of...
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Does ‘Gravity’ Live Up to the Hype?
Gravity Movie Poster Written by Amanda Rodriguez Spoiler Alert Alfonso Curon’s Gravity is primarily an experience. It’s an edge-of-your-seat survival tale set in the vastness, the darkness, the...
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’22 Jump Street’ is That Awkward Moment When You Want to be Progressive and...
Written by Katherine Murray. 22 Jump Street alternately endorses and makes fun of the idea that we should be sensitive, tolerant people, but it isn’t mean-spirited or offensive – it’s just sort of...
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‘The Maze Runner’ Suffers from the Smurfette Principle and White Savior Trope
Written by Megan Kearns. Like most Hollywood films, The Maze Runner – the latest young adult (YA) novel set in a dystopian future adapted for the screen – revolves around a white male protagonist....
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‘Mad Max': Fury Road Is a Fun Movie. It’s a Solid Action Flick. But Is It...
Mad Max: Fury Road This guess post by Rebecca Cohen previously appeared at Rebecca’s Random Crap and is cross-posted with permission. Many who devote ourselves to the struggle for gender equality...
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Off the Fury Road and Without a Map: Masculine Portrayal in the New ‘Mad Max’
Alone in the desert…but not for long. This guest post by Zoe Chevat appears as part of our theme week on Masculinity. In our generation, action dominates the box office with bombast, containing...
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Let’s Hear It for the Boy! Masculinity and the Monomyth
This guest post by Morgan Faust appears as part of our theme week on Masculinity. I had a professor who began our first writing class with a wonderful speech about how as writers we have the most...
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Violence Helps Our Heroines Have a Lovely Day
This guest post by Sophie Hall appears as part of our theme week on Violent Women. This article contains spoilers for Mad Max: Fury Road, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Jurassic World. Is Mad Max: Fury...
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