I am torn about the Netflix movie Cuties. Having watched it, I found it very disturbing, and I think there are ways the movie could have been made to still amplify its message. Certain scenes did not need to be shown. On the flip side, I do understand the director’s […]
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Maleficent is a film with feminist undertones. It’s clear to see the feminist bias in how the movie plays out, especially the ending. Sleeping Beauty, by contrast, is not feminist. Yet it is more pro-women and a better movie overall. Here’s my comparison of the two, and a call for […]
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No opening credits, just a camera pan of a bunch of people standing in a circle, on separate red pods. Some of them disappear suddenly by falling off or stepping off. Worse than Game of Thrones; a character I liked died within minutes. What a movie. (Spoilers ahead.) Circle of […]
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Scarlet O’Hara may be one of the most vindictive, selfish, spoiled, narcissistic, irresistibly charming anti-heroines written in cinematic history. Perhaps without her, there’d be no Cersei Lannister, or Regina George, or Amy Dunne. She and her contemporaries are the perfect examples of ‘toxic femininity‘. But more than this; she is […]
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I first watched The Shining when I was sixteen with a friend. Neither of us adored it. It was an okay movie with some humorous and creepy parts but had a boring slow-moving atmosphere to it. It wasn’t a particularly terrifying film. I’ve seen it a couple times since and […]
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In 2015 I read a book called On Writing by Stephen King. I was aware that this man was one of the most prolific fiction writers out there. However, I was also aware he wrote horror, and being a scaredy-cat I was too afraid to read any of his books. […]
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