I did not expect to like this movie. Really, I didn’t. Hollywood’s recent history of making smart romantic comedies has of late been pretty pathetic. Plus, aren’t fabulously-wealthy, ostentatious people insufferable no matter what part of the world they come from? Still, this movie had good word of mouth and I wanted to support a […]

I have admired Tonya Harding since reading a profile of her in a sports publication around the time of the 1992 Winter Olympic games. In the piece, she explained how she and her mother would walk along the highway looking for bottles to cash in so as to defray the expenses related to her skating […]

Last post, I denounced the term CHICK FLICK, insisting we adopt a more accurate, and less derogatory, term for films intended to appeal primarily to female audiences: “female-targeted films.” Today I want to expand on what that means, and perhaps more importantly, what it doesn’t mean. The female-targeted film hails from a fundamental logic in […]