Celebrating ‘Ghostbusters’ and the Female Gaze By Tara M. Clapper “Ghostbusters” is controversial. Did a disappointing trailer warrant hate for the movie? Did an all-female cast ruin the childhoods of many “Ghostbusters” fans? Will most women like the movie? I liked what I saw and found some of the movie’s flaw forgiving due to the very rare but much appreciated… Read more →
I want to talk about the horror genre today, and I want to talk about it with one specific film in mind (THE WITCH) and in general as a concept of genre. There’s a great article over on medium.com which talks a lot about the sort of horror films I love (THE WITCH, THE BABADOOK) and one which I vehemently… Read more →
{Spoilers in this Post for Deadpool} There’s a lot of things I expected out of Deadpool this Valentine’s Day: Violence, swearing, guns, inappropriate ball jokes. What I wasn’t expecting was to leave the theater thinking about how disability narratives are few and far between in the superhero genre, and how maybe Deadpool was the hero disabled nerds needed to see…. Read more →
This post will contain spoliers for Mad Max Fury Road and a spoiler for Game of Thrones’ episode “Unbowed. Unbent. Unbroken.” So I haven’t watched Game of Thrones yet. I know that Sansa Stark, who replaced Jeyne Poole as Ramsay Bolton’s rape interest, is married off and is raped. And I don’t want to watch that scene because it will… Read more →
Batman, Superman, Daredevil, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Oracle, Spidey…. I love them all. I love the Avengers. I love supes, and comics. Here’s what I don’t love: the way that comics and superhero movies treat disability. Spoiler Warning for Guardians of the Galaxy, Batman Movies etc. On Saturday night my husband and I went and saw Guardians of the Galaxy. The… Read more →
