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…
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…
‘The Immoral Mr. Teas’ (Russ Meyer, 1959): The Birth of an Auteur and the Face of a New Genre
Teas not only marks the emergence of one of the most interesting and disputed “auteurs” of the American cinema, but also proved to be a…
FNC 2012: ‘Clip’ is shocking but lackluster
Clip Directed by Maja Milos Serbia, 2012 Contemporary Serbian cinema gives the rest of the world a run for its money in terms of shock…
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…
Inside Out 2012: ‘Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean’; or if Fellini made a Dolce & Gabbana commercial instead of La Dolce Vita
Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean Written and directed by Matthew Mishory USA, 2012 Let’s posit a hypothetical – what if the iconic…
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…
