August 26, 2008

Teeth - My Introduction to Feminist Horror

Category: Evening movie review — admin @ 4:08 pm

I am looking at the sticky notes I have little ideas about this movie written on. Never in my life have I written notes about a movie. I’m a social justice educator not a film critic. That being said Teeth gave me so many things to think about that I found myself taking notes anyway. After the movie I was pleasantly surprised to find that the movie that had got me thinking had gotten decent reviews from critics.

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Voltron is Back on Track!

Category: Evening movie review — admin @ 8:08 am

One of my favourite cartoons as a child is going to get updated into a film. Yeah, we heard it before and the Voltron movie possibilities just didn’t seem to be happening. But word is now that movies like Transformers are proving to be a big hit, they are looking at other franchises that just didn’t seem realistic to make movies out of.

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The Devil Wears Prada - A Movie Review

Category: Evening movie review — admin @ 12:08 am

Review Top Sheet: Tagline : hell on heels. A great watch worth your time and money with no vulgarity and sexual scenes which plague too many of Hollywood’s movies these days. It’s also been claimed that the story is based on Anna Wintour the editor-in-chief of Vogue. An article published in the New York Times ‘fashion&style’ (December28 2006) titled ‘The devil likes attention’ claims of editors in chief of Vogue and Marie Claire to produce a series of mini documentaries on life at the magazine due to the public’s fascination on the subject and the great success and influence of genres like ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and ‘Ugly Betty’.

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