There’s a reason you’ve never heard anyone call Vladimir Putin a Nazi. Putin orchestrates many a frightening thing in order to keep Russia in his power. He poisons opponents who threaten his leadership. He kills journalists who report on his crimes in order to better control the flow of information that reaches the Russian people. […]
Visual Domination: Angelina Jolie’s Sexual Power in Mr and Mrs. Smith
“A woman must continually watch herself. She is always continually accompanied by her own image of herself.” This is because, as John Berger puts it in Ways of Seeing, “to be born a woman has to be born…into the keeping of men.” In male-dominated Hollywood, women’s careers are entirely in the keeping in men. Hollywood, […]
Below Her Mouth is Yet Another Disappointing Film About Lesbian Experiences
Below Her Mouth, directed by April Mullen and written by Stephanie Fabrizi, is a bad film. And, by virtue of it interrupting its best sex scene through a plot point as weakly written as the rest of it, it’s barely passable as the porno it wants to be. The film opens on Dallas (played by Erika Linder, […]