Dive into our blogs for a feminist lens on media, offering critical analyses across various platforms. We dissect media through an intersectional perspective, highlighting both commendable and less stellar aspects. Join us in exploring the nuanced world of feminist media critique, where thoughtful insights await.
Post Archive
The Devil Went Down To Paris in Chanel Boots
The Devil Wears Prada (20th Century Studio, 2006) introduces the corporate girlies who must adapt to masculine traits to survive the office world and break the glass ceiling. Andrea Sachs, played by Anne Hathaway, is a freshly graduated journalist eager to make it in NYC. She lands a job at a fashion magazine as the assistant to the editor-in-chief Miranda Pristley (Meryl Streep). It is not the hard-hitting journalism Andy dreams of but the opportunity promises to open doors to the city’s most exclusive papers. What Andy does not anticipate is the intensity of Miranda’s world where perfection is not just expected but ritualized. Slowly Andy’s disdain is lost under the pressure to conform to the high expectations of the fashion industry.
Should knowledge be hoarded by librarians and sentient plants?
As a low stakes, more upbeat, easy read, the Spellshop is a cozy novel by Sarah Beth Durst. Here’s what we thought.
Are You The Clone or Am I?
So we did write out a whole outline for this, but it’s hard to really critique a piece of fiction that consistently broke every rule in its own worldbuilding as the story progressed.
More Than 280 Minutes But Not Worth Watching
We watched 'More Than a Married Couple But Not Lovers' so you don't have to. Read our review instead. Because Hayao Miyazaki was right when he said, anime was a mistake. Especially this one.
Love, Hallmark, and the Art of Doing Nothing
We watched the Wedding Veil Trilogy so you don’t have to.
Murder in Mujin: Psychic Veterinarian Solves Crimes
Psychic veterinarian solves crimes by touching people’s butts.
Snowy Sinister Horror Stories in the Dark
A short and mostly spoiler free review of Taaqtumi to keep you warm during the festive season.
A Quick Trip Into Multicam Sitcoms
Kevin Can Fuck Himself (AMC 2021-22) asks the audience a seemingly simple question: what happens when the laugh track cuts off and the characters move off screen in a sitcom? Do the jokes ever end? What would the reality behind the bright lights and canned laughter look like?
If You're Going to be a Paranoid Final Girl, be Capital P Paranoid
The Final Girl Support Group, by Grady Hendrix, is both an homage and a critique of the slasher genre. Packed full of winks and nudges for genre superfans, Hendrix attempts to subvert the ‘final girl’ trope and build on the aftermath, exploring what happens after the movie ends.
Pride and Prejudice and Bad Writing
What happens when you try to make a movie adaptation of a famous book but you don’t really understand the core material nor have you figured out exactly what the intention of the plot was? Naturally, you get a Hallmark movie... or two in this case.