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...
by Shayne | Oct 11, 2022 | Movies
Buried under the bad review schadenfreude are themes of female empowerment and liberation. Yes, I’m talking about the much maligned, raspberry-award earning, 2004 Catwoman movie starring Halle Berry. The movie where critics seemed to gleefully expound upon the...
by Shayne | Sep 20, 2022 | Movies
I’ll take some romance with my warrior woman energy I was reluctant to see The Woman King at first. It’s a war movie, for crying out loud, and I just didn’t think my poor little fragile psyche could handle that right now. But my friend was rounding up the troops to...
