Category — I Used to be Strong

The Dark Knight: Argh! (Major Spoilers)

In most ways, The Dark Knight is a truly spectacular film. It is certainly the best Batman film ever made (better even than the animated Mask of the Phantasm), and one of the best superhero movies ever made. Almost every …

July 19, 2008   54 Comments

Prison Break

MaggieCat

[Prison Break Primer in 100 words or less, because I know it's not everyone's cup of tea: Season 1 was about Michael breaking his brother Lincoln out of prison because Lincoln was set to be executed for a murder he ...

October 17, 2007   20 Comments

WHAT THE, uh, HELL Did They do to Boston Legal?

Just watched the s2 season finale of Boston Legal, and all I can say is.
WTF did they do to my show?
Now, Boston Legal was always kind of a look-at-me kind of show. But they always had this fantastic underlying feel …

June 5, 2007   2 Comments

C.S.I.- Sara Sidle

MaggieCat

C.S.I. used to be one of the few shows I never missed, partly because of one of the main female characters. Sara Sidle was once that rarity on prime time television: a geek and proud of it, had no problem …

February 21, 2007   10 Comments

Bones: How to be a Girl

sbg

I don’t watch Fox’s TV show Bones very often. I did happen to catch most of last Wednesday’s episode, which had a Valentine-y theme running through its B storyline.

“Bones” is a nickname for the primary character - a brilliant forensic …

February 19, 2007   8 Comments

Tit for Tat on CSI

sbg

This post contains minor spoilers for season 7 episode Leaving Las Vegas

I don’t watch CSI (original) anymore, but happened to catch last Thursday’s episode - Leaving Las Vegas because my favored show wasn’t on. In the episode, …

January 8, 2007   11 Comments

Beware of boredom

Jennifer Kesler

This article shows a short public information film from 1961, from the University of Oklahoma. The author of the post describes it as “A worrying little public information film from 1961 equating household accidents …

December 6, 2006   14 Comments

A Woman’s Just A Prop

sbg

This is something I meant to jot down a long time ago, probably about a year. There are probably a million examples of this, but the one that really caught my attention (and ire) was as follows:

Thomas Gibson and Jenna …

November 20, 2006   1 Comment

Women: Know Your Limits

Jennifer Kesler

And now for something completely different. This is just too funny not to share: it’s a farce of a 1950’s film strip teaching women about their intellectual limitations. If you’re unable to hear the voiceover, the narrator …

November 15, 2006   7 Comments

Ways of Seeing

Jennifer Kesler

I stumbled across something on the net today, following links from one blog to the next, which seemed not precisely on-topic for Hathor. It was from a book by John Berger, called Ways of Seeing

September 25, 2006   4 Comments