A few years ago I got this region-free DVD player that changed my life. Suddenly all these great Asian films that would never be released in the United States were mine for the watching. It meant spending money on films sight unseen and it backfired sometimes but when it worked it worked. Oldboy was one [...]

Okay, Drive is something of a lesser-known movie, so I’m actually going to give you a plot synopsis, hopefully without spoiling everything like the trailer kinda does. Ryan Gosling plays the Driver, a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver. He lives next to Irene, a single mother whose husband is in prison, and [...]

The Stephanie Plum series is one of the reasons I started FemPop. That may sound shallow, but when the film was being cast and started shooting traditional entertainment sites, especially the ones usually full of smart critics with a penchant for nerdiness, treated the property like dirt. It was just another Katherine Heigl project of [...]

It’s the Rape of Nanjing, Bale, not a delicious steak. Maybe you should stop looking at that female body (thoroughly dehumanized) like she’s delicious delicious red meat. I’m all for a good and serious film about what happened in Nanjing. It’s incredibly important that we don’t forget our past. And John Magee, the man Bale [...]

Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy has always been about function over form. Every single thing on Batman’s costume does something useful. He’s got can openers in his gauntlets and helpful cataracts in his mask. It only makes sense that when transcribing other heroes into this Oscar-winning Batman universe that they’d carry over that idea of function [...]

As much as I intensely dislike The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo the publicity for David Fincher’s take on the mediocre book is phenomenal. As is every bit of music I’ve heard produced by Trent Reznor. I’m still going to have major problems with the rape plot but Fincher has me legitimately excited. Plenty of [...]

Chalk this one up to a depressing a-duh. Back at Comic Con film producers at Legendary and the makers of Mass Effect fielded questions about the recently announced Mass Effect film. They didn’t answer all the questions until yesterday. FemShep, the awesome and now controversial female avatar of Commander Shepard, will not be featured in [...]

Last week put a serious dent in the wallet so it’s nice to see so few films being released on DVD this week. My bank account needs a serious break from all the money spending. 1. Bridesmaids It’s one of the most successful films of the year and one of my personal favorite films of [...]

My favorite version of The Thing isn’t the movie that all horror nerds my age like. It’s actually the episode of The X-Files with Felicity Huffman and that dude that looks like William H Macy. I saw it first and in retrospect holy hell was it a ripoff of the John Carpenter film. The Carpenter [...]

Yes FemPoppers I am well aware of the articles I owe you. They’re busy being penned when I’m not busy playing Dead Island and softly weeping. But in the meantime I’m going to be about forty years behind the time and post something awesome and totally ancient in internet time. Wicked might be one of [...]