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Category Archives: Movies

Mar 09, 2018Nov 18, 2020

The Twisted Knots of Power and Control in Phantom Thread

NOTE: This piece contains spoilers for Phantom Thread.   Phantom Thread is a film of such remarkable craft and exquisite execution that I find myself in the extremely rare position of admiring it, even liking […]

Dec 22, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Anita’s Most Memorable Media of 2017

Every new year I say to myself, “Self, keep track of the media you love this year so when December rolls around you know exactly what to write about,” and every year, I don’t do […]

Dec 20, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Caro’s Fave Five: Movies in 2017

Cinema, like all the arts, felt particularly urgent and necessary to me this past year. In the midst of all the sometimes overwhelming shock, rage and fear of 2017, these are the five films that […]

Dec 19, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Ebony’s 2017 Comfort Blankets

For what it’s worth (quite a lot, actually), there were moments of solace and triumph in the largely fetid swamp of 2017. For my money, 99% of those moments were born from the work, passion, […]

Oct 17, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Officer K and the Real Girl: Cultural Dehumanization in Blade Runner 2049

The original Blade Runner is a film without heroes, but to me, the most sympathetic characters have always been the four rogue replicants that Rick Deckard hunts down and kills over the course of the […]

Jul 18, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Masculinity, Rage, and Racism: Some Thoughts on War for the Planet of the Apes

War for the Planet of the Apes may be the least subtle film I have ever seen. Of course, not every film has to be subtle, but at a certain point, enduring a movie that […]

Jun 21, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Senior Citizen: Gender, Infirmity and Horror

You wouldn’t know it from the amount of time I spend thinking, talking, and writing about horror cinema, but I’m actually not a huge horror fan. I’ll spend hours falling through a TV Tropes or […]

Jun 05, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Wonder Woman: The Hero We Need in a Film That Falls Short

After seeing Wonder Woman last Friday and having a chat on Facebook Live to share our immediate impressions, Anita and I exchanged emails this weekend to discuss the film in more detail once we’d had […]

Mar 28, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Absolutely Badasses: Looking Back on Vasquez, 30 Years Later

My parents’ attitude toward selecting films to watch on family movie nights was pretty loose when I was young. They’d refined the criteria a bit more by the time my brother was able to sit […]

Mar 23, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Blue Belle: Femininity, Fashion and a ‘Tale as Old as Time’

Let’s state the obvious right up front: Beauty and the Beast is a Disney film. What this means is that it follows a long history of formulaic narratives involving young women in a bit of […]

Mar 16, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Logan: A Film Fighting With Itself

It’s telling that Logan, Hugh Jackman’s final outing as Wolverine after playing the character for 17 years, heavily references a moment in Shane, the legendary 1953 Western. Specifically, it references the moment when gunfighter Shane […]

Mar 01, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Well, Too Bad We Can’t Stay

I saw Get Out among a predominantly white audience this weekend. The decision was spontaneous and swift — there was a showing near me (in the white-ass suburb in which I live) at the perfect […]

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