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Top 10 of 2012 – Adelaide’s Picks
So, as much as I love movies (and I LOVE them), I don’t actually watch many new ones. I tend to view films when I feel like it, and my interest has little to do with release schedules. I do go to the theater, but…
READ MOREDouble Feature Showdown – Christmas in Connecticut vs. Remember the Night
I love Barbara Stanwyck. I also love Christmas movies. So, it should come as no surprise that I especially love Barbara Stanwyck Christmas movies. As is turns out, there are two of them: Christmas in Connecticut and Remember the Night. Each one can hold its…
READ MOREFilm Review – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Downton Abbey has a lot to answer for. I like a costume soap opera as much as the next lady person, but now that genteel English country house dramas are all the rage, there’s a lot out there to choose from. Unfortunately, not all of…
READ MOREFor the Ladies – Old Acquaintance
One of the more prevalent subjects in the Women’s Pictures of the thirties, forties, and fifties is female friendships. Often it is relegated to subtext or incidental material, but every once in a while it takes center stage, as in the 1943 film Old Acquaintance,…
READ MOREFilm Review – Hitchcock
If I had to name the three directors most responsible for my love of movies, I would list Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter, and Woody Allen. (You can throw in Ernst Lubitsch and Michael Curtiz to round out the top five, if you’d like.) Hitchcock is…
READ MOREFilm Review – A Late Quartet
As a middle-aged lady, sometimes I want to watch a movie deal with issues besides saving the world and having sex for the first time. Yes, those are interesting subjects, but I can only watch a superhero come of age so many times before I…
READ MOREDouble Feature Showdown – Ginger Snaps vs. Jennifer’s Body
The “Last Girl” is a horror movie trope so prevalent we don’t even think twice when we see it. She is the survivor of whatever atrocities the film has set up for its victims, and usually makes it to the end by keeping her clothes…
READ MOREFor the Ladies – I Married a Monster from Outer Space
While not what we typically think of as a “Woman’s Picture,” I Married a Monster from Outer Space is an interesting exploration of women’s fears about marriage in 1950s America. It’s a 1958 horror/science fiction movie directed by Gene Fowler Jr., and is a great…
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