Blue-Collar Oscar Bait
By Nina Shen Rastogi
- February 2 2010
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- 0 comments
Why Are Girl Journalists in Movies So Lame?
By Sara Libby
Crazy Heart continues the tradition.
- January 27 2010
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- 579 comments
An Angry Lady in Parachute Pants
By Faith Salie
Q&A with Jane Lynch, the villain from Glee.
- November 12 2009
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- 250 comments
Uma, Put Down the Pacifier and Step Away
By KJ Dell'Antonia
Want to silence Uma Thurman, the ruthless killer bride of Kill Bill, Vols. 1 and 2? Stick a binkie in her mouth. That's the message of Motherhood: The Movie.
- October 21 2009
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- 1 comments
Where the Depressed Things Are
By Willa Paskin
It's not just boring and scary, it also might be a failure of imagination.
- October 19 2009
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- 1 comments
Girls Like Vampires Because We Want To Have Sex With Gay Guys?
By Samantha Henig
The problem with Esquire's Stephen Marche's argument that girls like vampires because we want to have sex with gay guys.
- October 13 2009
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- 10 comments
The Socratic Ideal of Student-Teacher Sex
By Samantha Henig
I envy the relationship those Greeks had, back when terms like “statutory rape” didn’t exist.
- October 9 2009
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- 8 comments
Precocious Kids and "An Education"
By Willa Paskin
In "An Education," Jenny, for all of her schooling, is unschooled about many aspects of adult life (sex and culture being the two big ones), but her preternatural self-possession is not just a put on.
- October 9 2009
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- 1 comments
Is the Love Affair in "An Education" Statutory Rape?
By Samantha Henig
Coming on the heels of the Roman Polanski arrest, the plot of An Education is particularly fraught.
- October 9 2009
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- 4 comments
A Trip to Rome Brought Out My Inner Hedonist
By Molly Shapiro
From the Pantheon to the piazzas, I loved everything—including the men.
- October 5 2009
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- 5 comments