The True/False Festival Experience
I’ve been fortunate to attend a fair number of film festivals, partly for professional reasons,…
My So-Called Memories: A Women’s+ Canon Article
If the near quarter-century that has passed since My So-Called Life originally aired and I…
Film on the Disc: THE HUNGER GAMES SERIES
The multi-movie adaptation of fan-beloved book series is now basically its own genre with its…
Learning Nuance and Film Vocabulary with TROLLHUNTERS: TALES OF ARCADIA
Irene is two. She will ask a lot for “More Pocoyo” or “more Bear,” and…
Ramona Quimby: A Women’s+ Canon Article
To me, the strongest evidence of “girls’ stories are for girls; boys’ stories are universal”…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
The catalog titles this week are slim, but that’s made up for with an unusually…
I Identified With People up on the Screen: Luke Perry, 1966-2019
I’m not sure anyone in my physics class actually watched Beverly Hills 90210. I’m actually…
The Women’s+ Canon: NINOTCHKA
It’s fascinating to me that there’s actually a Hitler joke in Ninotchka. Toward the beginning…
(Good?) Junk Food: Me & The MCU
The MCU movies drive me nuts. I like most of the MCU movies. I tend…
Celebrating the Living: Bert I. Gordon
I have to admit that I judge people a lot based on how they react…