Category: Movies
Female Directors 2: the women who maintain the Big Voice
In the mid-late summer of 2023, something big happened. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” premiered, scooping us up into Barbie-land, and putting us back down wearing pink…
Female Directors: The first women with the Big Voice
What comprises a great female director is the same recipe for what comprises a great director. So must we look at female directors within their…
Female Rage in Horror: why we want it, why we need it
The angry female figures of the past were feared and hated, in the likeness of Medusa or the common witch. This rejected figure has been…
From the Film Industry to the Independent Filmmaking Sphere
Expanding on a previous article I published, I am joined by Kayla Abuda Galang, a second-generation Filipino American filmmaker, to understand the Asian American experience…
Horror & Corporatized Feminism, part 3
Simply Men Bob Clark’s 1974 horror masterpiece Black Christmas has been remade twice: once in 2006 by Glen Morgan and again in 2019 as a…
Behind Blonde – The Exploitation and Trauma of Marylin Monroe
Andrew Dominik’s Blonde has been making controversial headlines since its initial announcement. Upon release, the internet has made an uproarious rejection of Hollywood’s poor reflection…
Horror & Corporatized Feminism, Part 2
Between Two Strodes Based on John Carpenter’s seminally foreboding 1978 original, David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) is a largely reactionary endeavor. The original film is…
How Important is Hulu’s Fire Island for the LGBTQ+ Community?
As previously discussed, gay Asian individuals often suffer from a mix of the model minority myth and their sexual orientation. One of the few examples…
Horror & Corporatized Feminism, Part 1
There is a tendency in today’s feminism to sympathize with (and consequently amplify) corporate ideologies that are largely hostile to the feminist mission of equality.…
From Never Have I Ever to Turning Red: The Relationship Between a Mother and a Daughter in Asian Media
The relationship between mother and daughter has been heavily prevalent in films and television series focusing on Asian families; here are some examples from the…
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