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‘Drive’ and the Need to Identify the Virgin or Whore in the Passenger Seat

This is a guest review by Leigh Kolb. The 2011 film Drive opens by plunging the audience into an 80s-insipired neo-noir world, where the beats are hard, the car chases gripping, and the femme fatale...

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Indie Spirit Best International Feature Nominee: Shame

Shame (2011) This is a guest post from Clint Waters. “We’re not bad people. We just come from a bad place.” Shame, Director Steve McQueen‘s second feature-length film (which he also co-wrote the...

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Conspicuous Consumption and ‘The Great Gatsby’: Missing the Point in Style

The Great Gatsby (2013) Written by Leigh Kolb Critic Kathryn Schulz, in “Why I Despise The Great Gatsby,” bemoans the acclaim that the novel receives in literary circles. She says, “It is the only...

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‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: A Moving Tribute to Music While Transcending Gender...

Music can wordlessly stir emotions and move us. A song can provide a glimpse into a moment in someone’s life. Music can mark the borders of a cultural era. A lyrical love letter to folk music, Inside...

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‘The Spoils of Babylon’: A Campy Parody of Every Miniseries Ever

[caption id="attachment_7496" align="aligncenter" width="202"] The Spoils of Babylon promotional poster.[/caption] Written by Erin Tatum. I’m not going to lie, The Spoils of Babylon is a really weird...

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The Modern Femme Fatale in Nicolas Wending Refn’s Neo-Noir ‘Drive’

[caption id="attachment_18202" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Modern Femme Fatale Irene (Carey Mulligan)[/caption]   This is a guest post by Giselle Defares. The alluring femme fatale always...

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Carey Mulligan on Her Feminist Character in ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’

[caption id="attachment_20973" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Carey Mulligan. (Photo by Paula Schwartz)[/caption]   This is a guest post by Paula Schwartz. Carey Mulligan took time off last week from...

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Rewritten History: Affecting in ‘Brooklyn’, Not So Much in ‘Suffragette’

I’m never enamored of the cleaned-up, ambiguity-free nostalgia that movies, especially mainstream ones, serve to their audiences in the guise of “history” so I avoided John Crowley’s Brooklyn (written...

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‘Suffragette’: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same

This is a guest post written by Scarlett Harris. | Spoilers ahead. I went to see Suffragette at the culmination of a day spent feeling utterly depressed at the state of women in the workplace and the...

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