AWFJ Women On Film - Rom-com Autopsy - Carrie Rickey comments
Maureen Dowd says they don’t make romantic comedies like they used to. But the death of the rom-com is greatly exaggerated. Read more>>
Carrie Rickey has been The Philadelphia Inquirer's film critic for 21 years and writes the newspaper's Flickgrrl blog. She has reviewed films as diverse as "Water" and "The Waterboy," profiled celebrities from Lillian Gish to Will Smith, and reported on technological beakthroughs from the video revolution to the rise of movies on demand. Her reviews are syndicated nationwide and she is a regular contributor to Entertainment Weekly, MSNBC and NPR. Rickey's essays appear in numerous anthologies, including "The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll," "The American Century," and the Library of America's "American Movie Critics."
Maureen Dowd says they don’t make romantic comedies like they used to. But the death of the rom-com is greatly exaggerated. Read more>>
What you remember about Patricia Neal is that tobacco-cured voice and those appraising eyes that in a glance could take the measure of a man to the millimeter. Read more>>
Julie Christie was the harbinger of 1960s London, the first tremor of the youthquake to come, this Mod who possessed the opposite of the British stiff upper lip. Christie’s overripe underlip signalled a creature of variable moods, by turns determined, libidinous, petulant. Read more>>
If Norman Rockwell were alive today, when there’s a smorgasbord of options for building a clan, his picture of the American dinner might resemble the post-nuclear family of The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko’s comedy opening Friday. Here are two lesbian mothers, their two teenagers - each the offspring of one of them - and the sperm-donor dad gathered around the picnic table, getting to know each other over burgers and chips 18 years after bio-dad’s deposit at the sperm bank.Read more>>
Is there a way for Hollywood to help teen stars navigate the rough transition to adulthood? Read more>>
Some days it seems that the world is divided into two types of people, those who love to hate Barbra Streisand and those who hate to love her. Read more>>
As Hollywood tosses a new generation of stars like so much spaghetti against the wall, which ones will stick? Read more>>
Is Q’orianka Kilcher doomed to play the bridge between indigenous and colonial peoples? Read more>>
This potentially fascinating tale of how the Hawaiian Islands lost their independence and were annexed to the United States, coupled with the romantic saga of a beloved half-Hawaiian, half-Scottish princess who battled injustice, is ripe with potential. But British filmmaker Marc Forby drains the inherent drama out of the true story, rendering it a one-dimensional period piece more suitable for the History Channel. Read the rest of this entry »
Bollywood mashup stale as yesterday’s mashed potatoes. Read more>>