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Star Trek Into Darkness Is A Most Excellent Star Trek Parody

Reviews, May 21, 2013, 1 Comment »

This isn’t a Star Trek spoof for a Star Trek lover (please see Galaxy Quest). This is a spoof of a spoof. It’s like the Russian nesting dolls of the general population’s expectations of Star Trek and Hollywood.

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The Grey’s Anatomy Finale Circles Back Around To The Beginning Of The Season

Grey’s Anatomy, May 20, 2013, 7 Comments »

There’s this interesting little note concerning Grey’s Anatomy: if you watch the premiere you will have all the tools you need to anticipate the finale each season. In the 9th season finale that idea the each premiere informs the finale has never been better illustrated.

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Once Upon A Time Gets Gayer Than A Rizzles and Johnlock Ham Sandwich In The Finale

Once Upon A Time, May 13, 2013, No comments

To take the relationship from a simmering subtext to blatant main text is completely in line with the show’s mission to redefine fairytales and dole out happy endings like candy. Two ladies uniting in love for their son (and possibly each other yes please) is just a logical as hell next step.

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Once Upon A Time Gets Crazy When Torture and Flying Shadows Are Afoot

Once Upon A Time, May 12, 2013, No comments

A recap of the 21st episode of the 2nd season of Once Upon a Time, “Second Star To the Right.” Regina is tortured, Snow learns empathy and Baelfire finally gets his episode.

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A Is For Arizona And Adultery: A Meditation On A Central Theme In Grey’s Anatomy

Grey’s Anatomy, May 10, 2013, 15 Comments »

Rhimes’ show is obsessed with these betrayals, the most fundamental of betrayals. Adultery is the most horrific of emotional crimes one can commit against another and she uses it to pry apart these characters and expose the roots of them.

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Snow and Regina Prove To Be The Core Of Once Upon A Time In “The Evil Queen”

Once Upon A Time, May 5, 2013, No comments

So Regina flees and Snow weeps for the mother figure destroyed and her own innocence violated and it never rings quite true, because this show has, at some point, decided that making Snow White/Mary Margaret anything more than a foil for Regina and a wet blanket for Emma would be intolerable.

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Body Representation at Comic Book Conventions

Art & Comics, May 3, 2013, No comments

[S]omething he said would color the entirety of C2E2 for me. While defending his book he [Jeffrey Kaufman] motioned to blown up cover behind him and said, “Those are some of the smallest breasted women you will see anywhere on a comic book cover.”

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Grey’s Anatomy Blazes Back With Hot Guys In Hoodies And Affairs Of The Heart

Grey’s Anatomy, May 3, 2013, 3 Comments »

While the show is setting up a little love triangle it’s also addressing a problem stewing all season, and that’s Arizona’s self-image. It is in the dirt and has been since her leg was amputated. And now here is a woman that doesn’t know her and finds her attractive.

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Lost Girl’s Final Two Episodes Put Their Best Blond Feet Forward

Lost Girl, Apr 26, 2013, 2 Comments »

But because Lauren has been developed as an honest to god character this season everything she says that is so brutally true rings a little false. She’s developed so much that there is no question of her loyalties.

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Emma And Belle Both Lose Themselves And Find New Wardrobe In Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time, Apr 22, 2013, 1 Comment »

Emma doesn’t know her well enough or feel secure enough in their relationship to say “you may wear hats because it helps after you got that haircut that makes your ears look crazy huge but I look pretty okay with some Aquanet and a curling iron so let’s call it a day.”

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May 21, 2013

Star Trek Into Darkness Is A Most Excellent Star Trek Parody

This isn’t a Star Trek spoof for a Star Trek lover (please see Galaxy Quest). This is a spoof of a spoof. It’s like the Russian nesting dolls of the general population’s expectations of Star Trek and Hollywood.

Apr 5, 2013

The First Look At The Carrie Remake Features Not One Mention Of Dirty Pillows

Chloë Grace Moretz doesn’t address the haters and naysayers opposed to her casting in the Carrie remake. She rips them apart in two minutes and thirty seconds.
Apr 4, 2013

Andrew Niccol’s The Host Is Awful And It’s All His Fault

That Rebecca and I like this movie and that we find it worth discussing and that we find ourselves actually defending Meyer and daring to call her a feminist is a testament to the strong guts of this polished turd.
Apr 4, 2013

Jurassic Park Taught Me It Was Okay To Be A Feminist

Ellie Sattler may have not been the focus of Jurassic Park, but for one confused ten year old she was a shining example of feminism being respected and also being really awesome.
Apr 2, 2013

Finding Nemo Gets A Curiously Titled Sequel, Finding Dory

Naturally I cocked my head to the side when I read the news because isn’t she a fish with dementia? Is this going to be the harrowing journey of her friends trying to find her after she wandered off one too many times?
Apr 2, 2013

Hermione Will Steal Everything In This Is The End Red-Band Trailer

Will Emma Watson, a woman who is no stranger to acting in sausage-fest-tastic films, be able to temper the massive massive massive sausage fest that is This Is The End?
Mar 27, 2013

More Shirtless Hot Guy And BAMF Hit Girl In Kick Ass 2 International Trailer

The international trailer for Kick Ass 2 features a focus on Hit Girls expanded story…also really attractive shirtless Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Mar 25, 2013

Vindicated! Pepper Potts Is Totally In A Super Suit In Iron Man 3

Just as Alex predicted, Pepper Potts is totally Rescue in Iron Man 3. Let the fan dance of joy commence.
Mar 23, 2013

Harmony Korine And Cast Of Spring Breakers Troll A Generation

Never have three actresses so thoroughly shat upon fan expectations. Fans have taken to Twitter–overwhelming the #worstmovieever tag with their disgust.
Mar 22, 2013

Michael Bay’s TMNT Could Have The Glossiest And Prettiest Cast Ever

I know it’s easy to hate Michael Bay. His films are sexist, racist, and in the case of the Transformers franchise, absolutely atrocious filmmaking. But daaaang guys, he makes a pretty movie. Full of pretty people.

Grey’s Anatomy
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May 20, 2013

The Grey’s Anatomy Finale Circles Back Around To The Beginning Of The Season

There’s this interesting little note concerning Grey’s Anatomy: if you watch the premiere you will have all the tools you need to anticipate the finale each season. In the 9th season finale that idea the each premiere informs the finale has never been better illustrated.

May 13, 2013

Once Upon A Time Gets Gayer Than A Rizzles and Johnlock Ham Sandwich In The Finale

To take the relationship from a simmering subtext to blatant main text is completely in line with the show’s mission to redefine fairytales and dole out happy endings like candy. Two ladies uniting in love for their son (and possibly each other yes please) is just a logical as hell next step.
May 12, 2013

Once Upon A Time Gets Crazy When Torture and Flying Shadows Are Afoot

A recap of the 21st episode of the 2nd season of Once Upon a Time, “Second Star To the Right.” Regina is tortured, Snow learns empathy and Baelfire finally gets his episode.
May 10, 2013

A Is For Arizona And Adultery: A Meditation On A Central Theme In Grey’s Anatomy

Rhimes’ show is obsessed with these betrayals, the most fundamental of betrayals. Adultery is the most horrific of emotional crimes one can commit against another and she uses it to pry apart these characters and expose the roots of them.
May 5, 2013

Snow and Regina Prove To Be The Core Of Once Upon A Time In “The Evil Queen”

So Regina flees and Snow weeps for the mother figure destroyed and her own innocence violated and it never rings quite true, because this show has, at some point, decided that making Snow White/Mary Margaret anything more than a foil for Regina and a wet blanket for Emma would be intolerable.
May 3, 2013

Grey’s Anatomy Blazes Back With Hot Guys In Hoodies And Affairs Of The Heart

While the show is setting up a little love triangle it’s also addressing a problem stewing all season, and that’s Arizona’s self-image. It is in the dirt and has been since her leg was amputated. And now here is a woman that doesn’t know her and finds her attractive.
Apr 26, 2013

Lost Girl’s Final Two Episodes Put Their Best Blond Feet Forward

But because Lauren has been developed as an honest to god character this season everything she says that is so brutally true rings a little false. She’s developed so much that there is no question of her loyalties.
Apr 22, 2013

Emma And Belle Both Lose Themselves And Find New Wardrobe In Once Upon A Time

Emma doesn’t know her well enough or feel secure enough in their relationship to say “you may wear hats because it helps after you got that haircut that makes your ears look crazy huge but I look pretty okay with some Aquanet and a curling iron so let’s call it a day.”
Apr 18, 2013

Lady-Centric Zombie Comic By Terry Moore Gets TV Adaptation

Terry Moore’s award winning comic, Rachel Rising, about a dead woman hunting her own murder, gets optioned as a television show. Will this be the Terry Moore project that actually gets made?
Apr 16, 2013

The Good Wife Gives A Crash Course On Radical Justice In “Rape: A Modern Perspective”

A recap of the 20th episode of the 4th season of The Good Wife, “Rape: A Modern Perspective.” Alicia and Will defend a client held in contempt for discussing her rape.

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May 3, 2013

Body Representation at Comic Book Conventions

[S]omething he said would color the entirety of C2E2 for me. While defending his book he [Jeffrey Kaufman] motioned to blown up cover behind him and said, “Those are some of the smallest breasted women you will see anywhere on a comic book cover.”

Apr 16, 2013

Star Wars Round Up: Now With More Leia And Calrissian Progeny

A new animated project, “Star Wars: Reclaimation” features a young Leia Organa and plenty of mystery, including the mystery of what the heck the project is to begin with.
Apr 16, 2013

Watching This Japanese Voice Actress Work Will Blow Your Mind

Rie Kugimiya is known as the Queen of Tsundere but only tackles on tsundere in this very cool video where she switches from character to character all on camera.
Apr 16, 2013

An Amusing Game Of Thrones Derails With Visceral Sexual Assaults

He begs Brienne to just “accept” her fate and she quickly snaps back “would you.” No, he wouldn’t because he’s a man. In Jaime’s eyes (and many men’s eyes) he’d still have some minute measure of power despite the act of rape being entirely about the complete annihilation of it.
Apr 15, 2013

Aubrey Plaza Is Trying To Be The Next Andy Kaufman And I Love It

After Aubrey Plaza purposely bombed a performance art moment on the MTV Awards it’s become clear she’s trying to be the next Andy Kaufman, and starting to succeed.
Apr 9, 2013

Some Women Win And Some Lose The Battle With The Patriarchy On Game Of Thrones

Somehow in Catelyn’s head her betrayal of her “motherly” duties to him as a child are what have brought down all the misery upon her head. It’s a horrific moment.
Apr 9, 2013

Focus Groups Surprise No One And Only Test Male Gamers

How entrenched is sexism in the gaming industry? The folks running the focus groups for Naughty Dog’s soon to be released “Last of Us” only tested male gamers.
Apr 8, 2013

Surprisingly Accurate Disney Princess As Sith Lords and Jedi Padawans

If there was ever a fairytale princess doomed to the Dark Side it was the lady that ~~killed Cora~~ forced the evil queen to dance until she died.
Apr 2, 2013

Fully Dressed Superheroines

Here I am busy all fighting the good fight and being critical of sexism and highlighting awesome women and I’ve still been so indoctrinated by the sexism rampant in comics that these heroes seemed off somehow.
Apr 1, 2013

Game Of Thrones Is Back And The Prostitutes Rule The Roost

hey’re the only two women not of noble blood and it is no coincidence that they’re both prostitutes. It is the only way a woman without a title can hope to make it in the patriarchal feudalist society George R. R. Martin has carefully cultivated from history.

Art & Comics
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May 3, 2013

Body Representation at Comic Book Conventions

Apr 15, 2013

Aubrey Plaza Is Trying To Be The Next Andy Kaufman And I Love It

After Aubrey Plaza purposely bombed a performance art moment on the MTV Awards it’s become clear she’s trying to be the next Andy Kaufman, and starting to succeed.
Mar 26, 2013

Gratuitous Violence And Exploitation Don’t Hinder Tomb Raider

Lara escapes, and plummets a few stories into a pool of bodies and blood. She rises from it covered in ichor, baptized by death itself and armed only with her bow and a single arrow and damn it, Lara Croft is suddenly the coolest hero in video games.
Mar 15, 2013

Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing May Be Most Modern Interpretation Ever

I’ve watched Catherine Tate and Emma Thompson cry and wail through it and I’ve watched Sarah Parish rage through a modern version, but then Amy Acker pounds her fists against Denisof’s chest and unearths the fury of an entire sex.
Mar 15, 2013

Saints Row 4 Trailer Full of Superpowers And Video Game Satire

A trailer for Saints Row 4, one of the few AAA video game titles with a canonically queer heroine. And this time she has super powers.
Mar 15, 2013

“Peter Parker Dating A Supermodel Is So Ridiculous!”

“What next, a man being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting some sort of spider-powers? Or dressing up in a costume to fight crime? Or fighting crime in the form of a huge guy dressed like a rhino, or an old guy dressed like a vulture, or an electric guy dressed like a lightning bolt?”
Mar 11, 2013

A List Of Female Celebs We’re Supposed To Hate But I Don’t?

Kickpuncher highlight a group of famous ladies that everyone has unreasonable hatred for because they’re ladies even though that’s extremely sexist and dumb you guys.
Mar 9, 2013

Oz the Great and Powerful Screws Over Woman So A Dude Can Find Happiness

Why would that guy be rolling like a stone down a hill? Well, it’s the body of L. Frank Baum, the son-in-law of a suffragette and early feminist, and he’d would be incredibly annoyed that his series of books specifically written to encourage young girls was transformed into a story about a douche trying to get his dick wet.
Feb 25, 2013

Dude-Bro Dumb Comedy Reigns On Oscar Night

The people don’t understand satire. Satire is social activisim via wit. It’s shinning a light on horrible systematic injustices by exposing them. A white guy getting up at an awards show that is predominately white and guyish and then smugly shitting all over everyone who isn’t a 30+ white guy? That’s just an asshole.
Feb 19, 2013

6 Sci Fi Epics With Space Marines That Are NOT Warhammer

To celebrate M.C.A Hogarth’s defeat of trademark bully Games Workshop here are 6 scifi properties with bad ass space marines that aren’t Warhammer.