Shortbus: Where everyone knows your kink
Multimedia sex advice superstar Dan Savage says “You know what’s not normal? Normal isn’t normal. What we think of as normal isn’t normal.” The so-called…
Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Idealistic Theology of Victor Hugo
With the long awaited Blu-Ray release of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the home release of last year’s Les Misérables, March is a…
‘My Own Private Idaho’ a sleepy, melancholic trip to nowhere
My Own Private Idaho Written by Gus Van Sant Directed by Gus Van Sant USA, 1991 Though he has made his share of more conventional…
House of Cards, S1: Politics serves as backdrop for sea of grays, study of human nature
House of Cards, Season 1 Premiered Friday, Feb. 1st on Netflix Only a few years removed from an acclaimed collaboration with Aaron Sorkin on The Social…
In Defense of ‘Twilight’
Ever since it became a major pop culture phenomenon, Twilight has earned a heavy dose of criticism. Critic Mark Kermode has defended the series from…
Femography: Lucy Walker
If women have struggled to regularly breakthrough with the big narrative films that dominate the box office and turn directors into stars, the low-budget/small-crew environment…
The Three Faces of Snow White
Judging from the dialogue about various tellings of Snow White at places that concern themselves with gender themes in film, finding a properly feminist way…
Femography: Alice Guy
To tackle most filmmakers’ filmographies is to commit to multiple discs worth of films. Whether or not Alice Guy’s filmography is a less daunting project…
‘Innocence’: An Education In Gender Norms
*This Post Contains Spoilers* Her first and only feature, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s 2004 film Innocence, adapting the German novella Mine-Haha, is one of the most elegant…
Femography: Director Deepa Mehta
Watching many of the major films from Bollywood history, one trend that stands out is the way that the films show a great respect for…
Urban Niche: Inner-City LGBT Cinema
The media-driven stereotype of the LGBT community is largely of an affluent white community. The well turned out men of Queer Eye putting you in…
Founding Mother of Film: Lois Weber
Back before it became apparent that movies could be big business and the industry was thusly taken over by men, there were a handful of…
