F*ck You It Is Awesome: Far and Away (1992)
A country big enough? How about jobs, a house and medical insurance because that corset is crushing her internal organs. In 1992 I had been in glasses for two years, thought Mike Tyson had run a rake...
View ArticleCherry 2000: A Love Story For Guys Who Sleep With Japanese Body Pillows
Sam Treadwell is madly in love. To the point that he’ll risk life and limb crossing a wasteland full of brainwashed mutants to save his love. It would be incredibly romantic. But Sam Treadwell is in...
View ArticleF*ck The Oscars And Watch These 7 Films Instead
This is probably one of the worst years the Oscars has ever had. It is like the year Crash won all over again only with even more white guilt and a bevy of sub par populists films earning accolades...
View ArticleF*ck You It’s Awesome: The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard has been on my list of films to cover for this column for quite some time, it’s a perfect storm of early 90s pop culture that any woman of a certain age will instantly recognize and even...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Emotionally Scarring Childhood Movies
I’m a sucker for kids’ movies. My Dad owned a video store in the 80′s, and I had my own “Kid-Vid” room in which I would watch movies while he was working. This was back when VHS tapes were $80 a...
View ArticleF*ck You It Is Awesome: Mass Effect 3 (2012)
To be fair this column is usually reserved for films from the last thirty years that get a bad rap and need a half-hearted defense. Yet I’ve been seeing so much anger lobbed at Bioware’s latest game...
View Article‘My Brilliant Career’ The Best Schlocky Faux-Feminist Drama You Haven’t Seen...
SAM NEIL! JUDY DAVIS! AHHH! Oh my god, you guys. Stop what you are doing, cancel your plans, break up with boyfriend, and then go to Netflix and watch My Brilliant Career. This 1979 Australian drama...
View ArticleSleeping Beauty (1959) May Not Be Progressive But It Is Critical
The myth of Sleeping Beauty is one endlessly revisited, updated and transformed. The passivity of the heroine makes her an alluring canvas on which to paint a character and the heroism of the prince so...
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