Tavi Gevinson’s online teen publication, Rookie, is launching today. It promises to be the sort of teen mag that every indie-minded twenty-something wishes had existed in 1997, back when they were, like, deep in the throes of their teenage angst.Heck, I wish that.Tavi loves the nineties, albeit the side of the nineties that rarely made it onto the pages of the decade’s teen magazines. No, I doubt that her nineties nostalgia will extend to multiple choice quizzes to esta...
BITCH:CULTURE
05 Sep 2011 08:38 GMT
When working the feminist circuit you tend to hear a lot about comedy and comedic films for women. It’s a complicated idea, with its implications that women and men can’t laugh at the same things or that we need our very own special brand of period humor to relate to characters on screen. I call bullshit on both points, as I’ve been known to belly laugh at a very well written poop joke with the best of them. Still, it’s hard to deny that in film, especially comedies, the women’s role is often...
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01 Sep 2011 11:45 GMT
While there are true Doctor Who obsessives out there who have watched the show since in November 1963 (and are, it should be said, quite old...) there are quite a lot of us who are still newbies to the show. Whether you're a newbie or hardcore Whovian from the '60s, the new Doctor Who in Comics exhibition at the Cartoon Museum will no doubt thrill yo...
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31 Aug 2011 09:00 GMT
Anne Hathaway may not be able to rap. Her teeth may be irritatingly white, and her cuteness may be down-right annoying, but I will never again call her a shit actress. Because she isn't.Prior to entering the Odeon in Leicester Square to watch One Day, I had no idea what to expect from the film. I knew it was a book people were quite passionate (and precious) about, but other than that, it just...
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26 Aug 2011 17:00 GMT
At its onset Super seems like just another in a list of current films depicting losers of the real world choosing to don a disguise and live out misguided delusions of heroism. Starring Rainn Wilson (of Office fame) and Ellen Page, I expected a laugh out loud comedy full of sardonic wit. What I got instead was something much darker and twisted, that me left me feeling unsure and ill at ease at its ending.
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26 Aug 2011 09:00 GMT
If, like me, you like to spend your Sunday mornings poring over the day’s papers, you might have come across a piece in the UK’s Sunday Times Style Magazine, a week prior to the publication of Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s The Language of Flowers, entitled “What it feels like: when fostering a child goes wrong”.
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23 Aug 2011 17:00 GMT
Do you like florescent rainbows? What about teddy bears dressed up as ballerinas? Or maybe impossibly purple dolphins and golden retrievers wearing hats? Then you no doubt love Lisa Frank. Lisa Frank's work has no doubt been assaulting your eyeballs since you were in primary/elementary school. Her folder, stickers, and even her erasers were everywhere when I was growing up. Seeing as I was more of a Little House on the Prarie kind of girl, her garish school supplies never real...
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23 Aug 2011 12:00 GMT
You guys! THE MUPPETS ARE BACK.New movie. New album. New screen saver. Nobody – and I mean nobody – does satirical slapstick puppetry better than the Muppets. I barely missed being alive for the inaugural run of The Muppet Show, ...
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19 Aug 2011 14:45 GMT
For many, including myself, Charlotte Brontё’s Jane Eyre is considered required reading. The novel operates as a darker, eerier and more rogue version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Much like P&P, Jane Eyre has also seen its fair share of film interpretation. While on the page Jane Eyre brims with passionate emotions and a scary mysticism that culminates in an unexpected twist that separates the novel and its writer from the majority of 19...
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19 Aug 2011 08:54 GMT
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." -- Red SmithAt a writer's conference this past weekend, my astute pal Nancy Holzner (author of Deadtown and Hellforged) said she reckoned everything had changed once writing became "content" and writers became "content providers."
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18 Aug 2011 12:18 GMT