movie reviews

Bitch Radio: Pariah In Theaters Now!

Feminist Podcast post by Kjerstin Johnson on January 13, 2012 - 3:56pm; tagged movie reviews, Pariah, podcast.

The purple-tinged movie poster of Pariah, featuring Alike sitting in a bus seat looking at her reflection in the mirror. For this week's podcast, Kelsey, Jyoti, Ashley and I talk about the movie Pariah, the feature-length film by Dee Rees that's already garnered lots of critical praise. The movie follows Alike (pronounced Ah-lee-kay, and played by Adepero Oduye), a young black lesbian living in Brooklyn, who deals with the trappings that come with being a teenager: crushes, annoying parents, drama with friends, and trying to fit in. You can watch the official trailer here (which we excerpt in the podcast), and watch the interview with the director we mention here.

Make sure you support this movie on opening weekend! Check here to see if it's coming to a theater near you. Click here to download transcript.

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Double Rainbow: Adam: "More like a child than anything else"

Movies post by Caroline Narby on January 13, 2012 - 1:11pm; tagged Adam, autism, movie reviews.

The 2009 romantic drama Adam features a relationship between a non-autistic woman and a man with Asperger syndrome. Any portrayal of autistic sexuality has the potential to be subversive, but unfortunately this particular movie squanders that potential and reinforces existing tropes about autism and disability.

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Jennifer's Body was a bummer. I mean wettie-killer.

Video post by Kjerstin Johnson on September 22, 2009 - 8:36pm; tagged Amanda Seyfried, Diablo Cody, horror movies, Jennifer's Body, megan fox, movie reviews, movies, slasher films, Women in Film.

This movie should have been awesome!
Like many feminist blog readers and pop-culture junkies, Kelsey and I have been following the hype on Jennifer's Body , starring Megan Fox as a cheerleader-turned-flesh-eating-demon and Amanda Seyfried as her loyal but mousier (Hollywood mousier) BFF, since we watched the preview way back in July. We finally got a chance to see it this Monday, and while hate is a strong word, there was one too many WTF? moments ("867-5309"?!) for us to get a feminist buzz off this flick (especially after being surprisingly touched by Whip It preview). So like the vlogging pioneers we strive to be (did you know we have a video page?) we sat down moments after the credits rolled to give our impressions, which include a primer on Diablo Cody's latest vernacular additions (:30), why we were disappointed (1:13), and of course its redeeming qualities (What? Unlike some people--JENNIFER!--we're not all filled with black bile and bloodlust. 4:19)! Check 'er out and share your own spoiler-filled thoughts on the movie! Transcript after the jump.