Review: Lady Sings it Better
Feminist commentary of popular songs, excellent music and a whole lot of laughs: Lady Sings it Better.
Film review: Silver Linings Playbook
This is a feast of a film, a comedy-drama-romance of families, friendships and forgiveness which sparkles with subtly dazzling restraint, studded with troubling emotions and snort-out-loud humour.
Book Review: ‘Why Have Kids?’ by Jessica Valenti
You won’t agree with everything in this book no matter which direction of parenting you’re coming from, Valenti acknowledges that, but it is taking the mainstream conversation about parenting to a meatier level and it’s about time that happened.
De Botton on sex – even odder than you might have expected
Apparently Alain de Botton knows exactly how everybody feels about sex (just like he does! how convenient!) while being blithely unaware of the sheer TMI factor. This review of his latest book How To Think More About Sex at sexandthe405.com is long, comprehensive and unfavourable.
Utopia Girls: I’m disappointed
Guest Blogger Alex “Skud” Bayley reviews a documentary aired on the ABC about women’s suffrage in Australia, Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote.
Femmostroppo Reader April 6, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Friday Hoyden: Y.T.
This is a repost: first published April 5, 2006 as Best. Hoyden. Evah. (before I’d got into the Friday Hoyden habit). I’m not sure I’d still call her best evah, but she definitely remains a SIKAW.
Y.T.
Skate-Kourier thrasher teen superbus. (***Spoiler Free***)
Review: Radical Act
Radical Act, a documentary by Tex Clark, was filmed back in 1995 and is about the queer/feminist music scene in the USA at that time. The documentary is simple but endearing – Clark interviewed female musicians and music journalists about the impact of their sexual and gender identity on their work. And with the likes [...]
Friday Hoyden: Luna Lovegood
AKA The Harry Potter #7 movie review
Just a short one, and I’m aiming to be spoiler-aware here for those few who haven’t actually read the book of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
On Ophelia, Who Never Got to Be a Hoyden
The casual use of violence perpetrated on the female body in telling a story about a man’s experience will not be news to most people here, but it might be enlightening to look at it in the context of what is often considered to be one of the great works of humanist literature, one that still carries more cultural weight than possibly any other, and is often claimed to speak to all people, everywhere.
Film Review: Little Sparrows
This Western Australian film only had two showings at the festival, but I look forward to its wider release, because it’s a little gem that I would definitely see again.
Dragon trailer doesn’t do it justice
How To Train Your Dragon is the best family entertainment film since Monsters Inc- pure feel-good escapism.
Parenting tips: watch classic movies with your child
So that you won’t ever have to find out one day that they have written something like this to a movie studio.
‘Avatar’ Indignation Thread
By popular request (and my need for a place to vent, still), this is the thread in which to point out plot holes, the rampant racism, (hetero)sexism and ableism, and general all-round problems with James Cameron’s new ‘epic’, Avatar. Also welcome are any arguments for its worth: I’m troubled by how one-sided I’m feeling about [...]
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