by Shayne | Aug 20, 2024 | Books, Movies
My first reading vlog! I re-read “It Ends with Us” by Colleen Hoover just in time for opening weekend of the movie adaptation. I stayed up until nearly midnight (and cried) to finish the book and went to the morning matinee the next day and then came home...
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,...
