80 Years Later, Frank Capra’s naively idealistic You Can’t Take It With You seems more timely than ever

If Frank Capra’s cherubically bright and sunny screwball comedy You Can’t Take it With You seems hopelessly naive today a full eighty years after its debut, consider that a year to the day after its New York City premiere the…

It’s Time to Retire the Term “Chick Flick”

As women, we have been conditioned to embrace, but also be ashamed of the term “chick flick.” Films that are supposedly made specifically for the female population but have a stigma attached to it, they’re associated with cheesy romances, melodramas,…

Why You Shouldn’t Care That Captain America is a Nazi (But Why You SHOULD Care About the Outrage)

75 years a hero. 75 years an icon. 75 years an emblem of all that was good and just and noble about America. About the American Dream. About the American people. 75 years a traitor. This past Wednesday, Marvel Comics…

Women in Film Wednesday: Beyond the Lights (2014)

Two weeks ago, I wrote about Gina Prince-Bythewood’s film Love & Basketball, a film which I genuinely find to be incredible. Finally, after having missed its theatrical run, I was able to rent Beyond the Lights on Amazon (support female directed…

Movie Pick of the Week: The Visitor (2007)

Movies Watched This Week: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), Howl (2010), Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet (2001), Pirate Radio: The Boat that Rocked (2009), The Visitor (2007), A Late Quartet (2012). January has been the month of…

The Oscar Underdogs: Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry

Being a fan and annual viewer of the Oscars has its drawbacks. Mainly being that now, months in advance to the actual glitz and glamour of the night, it’s easy to pick who the ultimate winners are going to be.…

Movie Pick of The Week: First Position (2011)

Amongst all of the Oscar bait films, film festival darlings, and foreign favorites, it’s easy to miss some gems of movies, to not know exactly what film is worth seeing other than the obvious. Sometimes it’s fun to pick a…