So maybe, just maybe, when you saddle a guy with a giant gas mask that hides half his face and slurs his voice you shouldn’t also saddle him with an accent? Because while some of us grew up with loads of people with speech impediments…and gas masks…and accents that’s not the experience of the average [...]

Not to be outdone by Hollywood, who’s been turning my favorite animated shows into live action monstrosities for years now, Japan has gone and turned some of my gateway anime programs into live action monstrosities. First there’s the live action Ranma 1/2 that premiered earlier this month. This is going to be a hot mess [...]

In Love Crime Kristin Scott Thomas (who is basically just French now) manipulates and seduces her assistant, played by Ludivine Sagnier. The film is about exploitation and power. Thomas’s character is engaging because she’s the boss, but also because she’s much older and wiser. She’s seen a world Sagnier’s character has not. Woman is wordly [...]

I’m watching Tom Cruise crawl around the outside of the tallest building in the world. He’s wedged into the structure of the building and I’m seeing him from the safe vantage point on the inside. Behind him is a gorgeous expanse of desert and glass and a great looming cloud of CGI sand. I know [...]

Julianne Hough was one of the best things about Craig Brewer’s Footloose remake. Most people already knew she was a fantastic dancer, but Footloose proved she was also a pretty damned good actress. Now she’s attempting the triple threat by sing in Rock of Ages. Up until now all anyone has really known about the [...]

Michael Fassbender’s Brandon moves through Shame with this seething rage. Scene to scene he’s waiting to explode. But he squashes it down. Becomes an automaton who cares about nothing but the next orgasm. His sex life. His rage. They’re things he’s meant to control, because they’re the only things he can control. Films about addiction [...]

Deadline has waded through a recent survey performed by Fandango to give us the 5 most anticipated films of 2012, and they’ve been kind enough to break it down by gender. THE MOST ANTICIPATED BLOCKBUSTER IN 2012 According to Men 1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Warner Bros) 2. The Avengers (Marvel/Disney) 3. The Dark [...]

If my parents hadn’t conceived me out of wedlock, it’d officially be my birthday today, so I’m going to celebrate as any self-respecting internet commentator would: by mocking Twilight. Of course, pretty much every conceivable angle has been covered on the series’s sexism, Mormonism, and whatever the hell a werewolf falling in love with a [...]

Twenty two years ago today Marc Lépine entered into École Polytechnique in Montreal and killed 14 women because he was “waging a war against feminism.” Engineering students Geneviève Bergeron, Hélèn Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maude Haviernick, Maryse Leclair, Annie-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, nursing student Barbara Klucznik-Widajwicz [...]

Thanks to Wikipedia I now know that Chile has one of the most restrictive abortion policies in the world. Like, no abortions. At all. That fetus can’t survive outside the womb? Too bad. Raped? Too bad. Incest? Too bad. Women seeking abortions have to do some pretty illegal and scary things. They are even forced [...]