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September 2022

Not Okay and Main Character Syndrome

Sabrina Vetter wrote for FemFilmFans a few years back and has graciously returned to share her review of Not Okay with us. Welcome back, Sabrina!

Her review looks at trauma (both real and appropriated), mental health, the truly toxic nature of social media and the cult of personality, among other things. Have a read, leave a comment and, in an ironic twist, perhaps share it on social media? Click on the text to be taken to Sabrina's review.

(If you need mental health support, check out this website (UK-based) --> https://mentalhealth-uk.org/)

August 2022

PERSUADED

This review of Carrie Cracknell's crack at Jane Austen's novel Persuasion (released on Netflix July 15, 2022) has been in the works for several weeks, as I wanted to weigh in as soon as I viewed it. I am surprised at the overall negativity in the reviews I have read, so I will hopefully persuade you to see why I choose to defend its virtues. There have been some troubling debates surrounding the film that I will only be able to skim the surface of, but I encourage you to think about the larger implications of the choices Cracknell and her team made, especially with regards to the cast.

As you might already be able to tell from the movie poster (pictured right, taken from the IMDB website), it is a bit sexier than your typical period Austen adaptation. You normally would never see the characters embracing in such a way, but that is, as I will argue, the key to the film's charm - the slight diversions from the standard period fare to give the story a more modern sense (and sensibility).

So, dear readers, please enjoy my review of Persuasion, and as you reflect critically on the film and my thoughts about it, perhaps you will allow yourself to be PERSUADED.

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July 2022

Photo by NBC Universal

It certainly has been a while, my FemFilmFam! I hope you're still out there and ready for some new content.

I have been a mom for just about 15 months now and it has been a roller coaster ride of emotions. The struggle is still quite real, but I have been itching to get back to critically viewing and reviewing media.

This time, it's a fun TV series and one of my faves that began airing on NBC in 2009 (where it is currently streaming on Netflix in the UK). It is set in fictional small town Pawnee, Indiana, but it is not small on strong female characters. That's right, treat yo self to a lighthearted look at the lovable ladies of Parks and Rec.

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August 4, 2020

Dollhouse The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture FemFilmFans

Image courtesy of Tricoast Entertainment

Come Inside My Dollhouse

Were you a Britney Spears fan? Or were you more into Lindsay Lohan? What about Junie Spoons? Never heard of her? Well, we think you should. Junie Spoons is a child pop star who fulfills all the Britney-Lindsay-and-co. clichés - the sex tape, the drugs and alcohol, the fall from grace, the days in court - but in a way you've never seen it before.

Nicole Brending's scathing feminist mockumentary might be obscene, but so is the way we continue to treat women. Oops, we did it again? Not good enough. The misogynistic eradication of female subjectivity in American pop culture is one of the many ways women have historically been chewed up and spit out for the pleasure, obsession and bewilderment of all. Brending shows the folly in this in a film that definitely won't leave you cold. Click on the button above to read Christina's review of Dollhouse.

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