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 defines him that all other princes must endeavor to live up to his exploits. They are, in many ways, the [...]

  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 was directed by Gillian Armstrong – who I hilariously confused with Gillian Anderson and was all “SCULLY WAS A DIRECTORIAL PRODIGY!” This Gillian [...]

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 that I decided to bend the rules a little. Who knows, maybe the next column will explore my [...]

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 piece for some titles.  Like, whoa. So while I was contemplating seeing the new [...]

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 be drawn to despite the film’s complete inability to age well after a first viewing. And it [...]

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 because no one bothered to see things like Melancholia and Shame. So in lieu of each [...]

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 love with a Real Doll, or the 2017 equivalent. The love of his life is a life-like female shaped [...]

In 1992 I had been in glasses for two years, thought Mike Tyson had run a rake across a woman’s face and didn’t understand why he’d ever mutilate a woman like that, thought Gone With The Wind and Sound of Music were the same film and was already madly in love with film. I could [...]