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 N…
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, th…
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 Wednesda…
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 re…
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 Lat…
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 goi…
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. Sometim…