March 2026
Words from an angry mother:
FemFilmFans was my pride and joy for many years. I spent countless (unpaid) hours working on this site because smashing the patriarchy mattered to me. It still does. Perhaps now more than ever. However, social media was a key component in getting visitors to the site, and since becoming a mother, I have decided to opt out of cultivating an online presence to bring about change to the way people think. Life is meant to be lived in person, and I have tried to embrace this by talking to people. But the world has sadly become more divided and it would appear to me that there are only two types of people: sensible ones and non-sensible ones. I believe in the truth, compassion, love and peace. I believe in working together, expanding our horizons, getting outside our comfort zones, and challenging one another to be better people. Why does it instead feel like every day is nothing more than a fight? Is it because certain men have put us in danger? Is it because we lack compassion? Or would we rather line our pockets than help our fellow hu(wo)mans? No one is illegal. Everyone deserves a chance. Remember this and do not let violence and evil rhetoric tell you otherwise! If you are a woman: FIGHT! If you are a man: DON'T BE A DICK!
September 2022
August 2022
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, 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
August 4, 2020
Dollhouse The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture FemFilmFans
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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 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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