Tag Archives: comedy
shakespeare, part ii
So yesterday I wrote about Shakespeare films that I find well nigh perfect. Here’s some that I love, or at least enjoy, in spite of their flaws. Richard III: The first Shakespeare movie I ever saw; it’s one of the … Continue reading
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happy birthday, shakespeare
Today’s Shakespeare’s birthday, so I really should have planned a post for today. Let’s just call this Shakespeare week, shall we, and I’ll try to do something more substantial over the weekend. In my offline life, I’m a doctoral student … Continue reading
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links of interest
*The Seattle Medium examines how missing white women get more media coverage than missing black women and how that affects victims. *Shakesville has a post analyzing commercials that inadvertently reinforce the myth of chronic pain being “fake.” *From Pandagon, a … Continue reading
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links of interest
Sacred Apacow sums up perfectly my discomfort with my love for the bromance: “Somehow, we’re expected to swallow the misogyny in these films because they’re coated in a syrup of kinder, gentler masculinity. . . . [L]et’s not give movies … Continue reading
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good and bad commercials about gender
I love the hyper-masculinity of Old Spice commercials, which play on the implicit promise of Axe ads—body wash makes you sexy—with a cheesy 70s absurdism. Rather than promising that use of the product itself makes you irresistible to women, it … Continue reading
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in which I have no answers, only gay fish
Why is it that I’m relatively indifferent to rap and hip-hop music in general, yet strangely transfixed by absurdist white-boy rap and hip-hop parody? Discuss. Or just watch, ’cause these are funny as hell.
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in which I start to think about something to which I will doubtless return time and time again.
There’s been a lot of talk the last few days in the feminist blogosphere about Observe and Report, a film I’d been looking forward to (I usually like Seth Rogen’s films, if not always his performances, and I adore Anna … Continue reading
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