Fame follows the lives of a dozen or so young performing artists at the New York Academy of Performing Arts over a period of four years. It’s been roundly panned by the critics, but from a feminist perspective, there was a lot I liked about it. Obviously, this being an ensemble cast, it’s hard to define who the main character is and who is secondary, [...]
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Warning, possible rape triggers The Duchess is the story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, a vibrant aristocrat who influenced much of the social and political changes of eighteenth-century England. Georgiana (Keira Knightly) marries the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes), who initially treats her royally. But when she fails to give him the son he wants – just two daughters – he unreasonably blames her and [...]
This hit the screens a couple of weeks ago in Britain, and I understand it just has just come out in the US. It has the distinction of being the first James Bond film I was actually excited to see (I was interested in seeing Casino Royale because I knew it was a reboot and they planned several changes in tone; but it wasn’t until [...]
Heartbreakers is the story of a mother-daughter conwoman team, Max and Page Connors (Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love-Hewitt respectively).It initially interested me because the idea of conwomen sounded interesting; it’s always the men who get to pull of elaborate schemes, a la Matchstick Men, The Italian Job and the Oceans series. I was incredibly disappointed with it. Why? Because Max and Page’s conning is almost [...]
In the interests of full disclosure, writer/director Glenn Gers requested that I review his movie disFIGURED, and provided me a DVD copy of it. From the online trailer, I saw he’d made a very ambitious effort: the trailer shows a recovering anorexic woman (Darcy) being turned away from a fat acceptance activism group, then a friendship developing between her and one of the fat women [...]
I’m Not There is a somewhat experimental bio-pic of Bob Dylan written and directed by Todd Haynes, and featuring six different actors (including Heath Ledger and a much-discussed and brilliant performance by Cate Blanchett) playing various elements of the Dylan persona. Since the film is about Bob Dylan, and since all of the main characters are Bob Dylan, it doesn’t leave a lot of time [...]
