Though not impressive enough for Pulitzer consideration, she also can be blamed for coining the moniker ”Frat Pack,” often used to describe the comedy clique that includes Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell.
Her positions have included Life section copy desk chief for four years and a film reviewer for 12 years. She is currently a film reporter, focusing on trends and profiles. She previously worked as a feature editor at the Niagara Gazette in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
A Buffalo native, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Canisius College and a master’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University.
1. Zero Dark Thirty — Never mind the controversy. A stirring action thriller that breaks gender boundaries.
2. Bernie — Made me love Jack Black all over again.
3. Magic Mike — Half-naked men, artistically served.
4. The Silver Linings Playbook — Been waiting for David O. Russell to make another Flirting With Disaster. This came darn close.
5. The Sessions — I knew I would cry, but didn’t expect I would laugh so much.
6. Argo — Enjoyably gripping, not easy to do.
7. Moonrise Kingdom — Every film could benefit from Bill Murray swilling wine in preppy pants.
8. Anna Karenina — The scene with the alphabet blocks — like 19th-century sexting.
9. Skyfall — Made me love Bond all over again.
10. The Hunger Games — This is where I will go on record to say I liked this better than The Dark Knight Rises.
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USA TODAY’s Susan Wloszczyna, a founding member of AWFJ, found the topic of women in film alive and well and much discussed at the 13th Sarasota Film Festival this year. Her exclusive report: Read the rest of this entry »
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Bridezillas Hudson and Hathaway
Is it me, or are romantic comedies of late not only tragically unfunny but virulently anti-women as well?
Take Bride Wars. Please! How Anne Hathaway could go from her playing the raw and riveting rehab sis in Rachel Getting Married to a clichéd Bridezilla out to upstage Kate Hudson’s dreadful blonde wig is beyond me.
At least the public rightly decided during the film’s opening weekend that their time would be better spent watching Clint Eastwood as a tobacco-spewing, arms-bearing bigot of a geezer. Read the rest of this entry »
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One of our main goals in writing these pieces was to refocus at least some of the attention this summer on other box office achievements besides the bazillions The Dark Knight is collecting. And on how the success of both “Sex and the City” and “Mamma Mia!” are considerable achievements given that much of their grosses were contributed by female moviegoers, proving we aren’t just a niche group. Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s hard to resist the urge to curtsy upon greeting Cate Blanchett. Australia’s fashionably wrapped gift to superior acting is once more upon England’s throne, in all her regally bedecked and bewigged glory, in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Read more
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Almost all the attempts to reach the female tween audience at the movies haven’t caught on of late, from The Babysitter’s Club to Traveling Pants. They just don’t speak to young girls as much as they do marketing concerns. Read the rest of this entry »
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Setting Travolta fans straight about John’s upcoming “Hairspray” performance, Susan Wloszczyna reports in USA Today, Travolta a year to agree to play super-do mama Edna Turnblad. “The problem wasn’t…playing a woman. It was…competing with his twentysomething self.” more
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In USA Today, Susan Wloszczyna delves into the fantastic world of Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth, where magical creatures have mythic meaning, and it takes a wise and very determined little girl to find her way through their mysteries and the maze in which they dwell.
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