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Sometimes there’s a film where all the stars seem to align. Love with the Proper Stranger is not a message picture. Rather, the film is an example where subject matter, star persona, and historical significance all combine to make an important movie. The drama holds a vital place in the cinema of the pre second wave feminist…
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The 1950s is the golden age for Hollywood musicals. White Christmas stands as one of the classics, alongside films like: Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris, and Gigi. The glossy and well made movie features not only catchy songs, but well-developed characters which audiences are quickly able to care about. Unlike the movies listed above,…
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Mother Nature’s a clever gal She relies on habits Take two hares with no cares Pretty soon you have a room full of rabbits The lyrics above from the Bobby Darin song “Multiplication” crafts a clear image of the tone of the 1961 sex comedy Come September. The film is up-front and open in its’ treatment of sex. The narrative…
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She has the smile of an angel (Fights like the devil) The eyes of an angel (Bites like the devil) The face of an angel (I say she’s the devil) She’s mean and evil through and through Cat Ballou has an unconventional opening. We open on an old west city street in the 1890s. The primary…
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The subject of the Cold War was a common one in the cinema of the middle 20th century. However, there were precious few Cold War comedies. One, Two, Three stands as one of the few (along with Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). The film is a fun and interesting…
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. The early years of the 1960s conjure a very specific image in US popular culture. The classic teen film Where the Boys Are is a complicated one. The gorgeous and polished studio picture shows a more layered society as it relates to gender and sexuality than is commonly associated with the early 1960s. The story follows midwestern college students Merritt (Delores Hart), Tuggle…
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I’ve posted before that I’ve been brainstorming some ways to rework this blog. A lot of my ongoing series have moved to http://www.geekgirlauthority.com. Check out lots more of my work there. To avoid duplication of content, things here have stagnated for a while as I made a plan. This doesn’t mean that the nerd content…
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This website is not dead! In fact it’s feeling a bit better… Anywhoo… just making sure y’all know that things are just on a bit of a hiatus while I do some rebuilding. In the meantime, check out what I’m working on here…
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Episode: “Dead in the Water” Episode 3 of Season 1 allows us to check off a water monster in Sam and Dean’s monster of the week quest. This week, the brothers find themselves on another detour from finding their father, as they wind up in Wisconsin on the trail of whatever is causing a rash of…
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I have a confession to make. As most should know, I’m a writer. In my spare time, I have a penchant for screenplays. I finished my first screenplay in middle school, and reading it over in the years that followed, I discovered that it’s little more than a piece of Irving Thalberg fan fiction. Names…
