How is it that one appearance by Elsbeth Tascioni has me nearly excited about The Good Wife again? It’s been a long slog lately. The Good Wife has always been a soft-spoken show full of simmering passions and enormous feelings left unsaid. Juliana Margulies has crafted a quiet and deeply internalized character and for the [...]

Far Cry 3 is desperately close to being my favorite game of the year. It’s the best shooter in a year that gave us another solid Call of Duty and the entertaining as hell Borderlands 2. It’s the rare first person shooter that does stealth absolutely perfectly and when you execute a mission with complete [...]

1. Josh Peck is terrible in this. I didn’t watch Drake & Josh, so I wasn’t seeing him as an R&B singer’s plucky sidekick, but his idea of being an action hero is talking constantly in a prepubescent Batman voice. It’s hilarious. “Alfred, I had a funny dream about Catwoman and when I woke up [...]

Do not be the current black man hanging out with the good guys. Do not be a woman of color. You will say nothing and either disappear or frustrate everyone with your mysterious motivations and apparently bull-headed stupidity. Do not be friends with Frank Darabont. Your character will be annoying for many many episodes. They [...]

I so wanted to love Cloud Atlas. I wanted to see the hope found in the same souls meeting again and again. I wanted to relish the romance of that idea. I wanted to love Tom Tykwer’s outstanding score. I wanted to marvel at how far the makers of Bound and The Princess and the [...]

This past weekend at Comic-Con Devin Faraci of Badass Digest (are you reading them? They’re seriously excellent) pegged down one presidents of Marvel Studios, the company that’s producing all those superhero films you spend money on in the summer. Before Comic-Con Faraci and many other online pundits had been under the impression that the big [...]

The Internet is full of lists on “The Top Five Best Superhero Movies” (any Superman movie made by Richard Donner) and “The Top Five Worst Superhero Movies” (any Superman movie made by someone else). But here at Fempop, we’re committed to doing the unexpected. I would like to again remind you these movies are not [...]

Last week Shonda Rhimes was chilling watching Bunheads (a really fantastic show by the way) and tweeted her disappointment over the supreme whiteness of the show. Which, valid. The show is incredibly white. The media took this as a major criticism/Shonda Rhimes attacking Amy Sherman-Palladino (the creator of Bunheads and the sublime Gilmore Girls). This week Sherman-Palladino [...]

Things I witnessed in Rock of Ages: Tom Cruise pubes. Dude singing into a woman’s bum hole and later her vagina (she was wearing undies) Lady sticking an impossibly long tongue into a dude’s ear. More Tom Cruise pubes. Two men kissing (which prompted some homophobes to loudly gag and run out of the theater [...]

Before anyone had even seen a single episode of Girls the racism talk had begun. And if you’re even remotely attuned to the color problem in American media you could see why this talk was happening. The show was shockingly white and the cast all even seemed to sort of look the same. But it [...]