Seeing the trailers for the big budget action flicks The Last Airbender and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time during the Super Bowl last night added a touch of racefail to the primarily misogynistic slant of this year’s commercials. Both films — one based on a cartoon and the other on a video game —… Read More Airbenders, Persians and Racefail, oh my!
I don’t know why people are so surprised that Vanity Fair‘s “New Hollywood” cover and feature story is composed solely of thin, fair-skinned women who are dressed and made-up to look as waifish and generic as possible. Forget the publication’s name referencing Thackeray’s novel, I think “Vanity” and “Fair” kinda says it all. Yes, these women… Read More Vanity UnFair: Going Beyond the Pale
Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues made waves last year, and continues to ripple throughout the South Asian community, the film community, and across the Internet. When I spoke to the writer/director/animator for a feature at ABCDlady magazine, I had so much of our discussion left over that I knew I had to share some… Read More Nina Paley Offers Some Blues Clues
As Karan Johar and Shahrukh Khan get set to debut their latest blockbuster, My Name is Khan (no, not a biopic but, rather, an exploration of life post-9/11 for a Muslim man with Asperger’s), it’s hard not to marvel at the trajectory of Khan’s career. Khan was a theater and TV actor who first made waves… Read More Khan pasina: the rise and reign of SRK
Here’s this week’s Twitter link round-up (and a few extras I haven’t tweeted): McG wants to reboot the La Femme Nikita TV series. To which I say, “Oh, HELL no.” Supernatural‘s Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles do not have Twitter or Facebook accounts. Heroes‘ Adrian Pasdar got arrested under suspicion of DUI. Aw, Nathan Petrelli,… Read More At my twit’s end
Sitting in the theater for Legion — which was, itself, a waste of the increasingly exorbitant NYC ticket prices — I was struck by two things. 1)Zoe Saldana is in everything coming out this year (sort of like how her Avatar co-star, Sam Worthington, was in everything last year) and 2)2010’s cinematic landscape is a barren… Read More Coming Detractions: 2010 at the movies
I’ve always* found Johnny Depp to be a tad bit pretentious (you’re from Kentucky, please stop pretending you’re European — see also Madonna), but since I love his films and his ability to play a wide array of characters (or at least four variations on Captain Jack Sparrow, as it were), I don’t pay his real-life… Read More Complications from Polanski-related soul death
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