by Shayne | Jul 27, 2023 | Featured, Movies
The Barbie movie had me all in my thoughts about femininity. I never thought I would be having deep conversations with my friends about the Barbie movie. For one thing, I didn’t have a Barbie doll growing up. Barbie and Barbie’s Dreamhouse were what my rich neighbor...
by Shayne | May 16, 2023 | Movies
The Joy of Subverting Gender Norms Every time I watch the late 50s classic comedy Some Like It Hot, I get something new out of it. The first time I watched it, I got a kick out of seeing two men endure and develop sympathy for all the shit women have to go through,...
by Shayne | Mar 14, 2023 | Movies
After Blonde, I’m going right to the source—Marilyn Monroe’s movies. Ever since reading the book Blonde and then watching the Netflix adaptation, I’ve been on a Marilyn Monroe kick. The book, a highly fictionalized imagining of Marilyn Monroe by Joyce Carol Oates,...
by Shayne | Dec 20, 2022 | Movies
In last week’s blog, I mentioned that watching the movie Eyes Wide Shut was one of my winter holiday traditions. Some of you were probably like, What? Hear me out. Eyes Wide Shut is legit a Christmas movie. This can be easy to forget, competing with ritualistic orgies...
by Shayne | Dec 13, 2022 | Movies
I’m getting into Christmas movies for the first time in my life. I think it all started with the For Colored Nerds “Lifetime’s Black Christmas” podcast about the Lifetime network’s holiday films and how they’re incorporating BIPOC,...
by Shayne | Nov 22, 2022 | Movies
An empowering movie about women uncovering the truth and speaking out against sexual abuse in the movie industry. She Said is about the two New York Times reporters investigating the allegations of sexual abuse by Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein. The...
