We all know which way the Avengers falls, but have you ever wondered whether Shakespeare passes the Bechdel test?
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Half-arsed Sunday: Books and Bechdel
So what’s everybody else been reading? What have you found especially well written, or at least well plotted? What’s particularly Bechdel-Wallacious? What, if anything, has been both?
Today in the Bechdel test: 24
[Warning: here be spoilers.] 24, the TV saga of implausible counterterrorist superhero Jack Bauer, has a whole lot of issues. But there is one thing that Season 8 of the show 24 is getting right, and that’s the Bechdel test… Read More ›
Quote of the Day: How the Bechdel Test could save the Oscars
If I can tell what role someone is going to play in a plot by their race or gender, you f**d up as a filmmaker.
10 minutes of Bechdel-Wallace fail
My pointing out that every film in this 10-minute film montage fails the BWT is however meant to call Hollywood’s institutional taste and judgement into question – why are very nearly all these films written around an all-male or mostly-male cast, and why are nearly all these memorable moments in these films written for the male actors, especially those involving “buddy flick” moments?
Target, and Lauredhel’s Toy-Catalogue Annex of the Bechdel Test
I finally got around to reading the bumper Target Toy Sale catalogue.
And it’s just as pinkly sickening as you’d expect.
Jurassic World – Movie Review
This post contains some small spoilers, so be aware if you plan to see this movie but haven’t yet. Discussion of the movie in comments may also contain spoilers. There won’t be any major spoilers in this review.
2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review – In Her Blood by Annie Hauxwell
My review of In Her Blood by Annie Hauxwell
More of this, please
How great is it to see a cover like this on a street rag?
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.
Hoyden About Town 