Doing the movie analysis for Ammonite this time. Ammonite (2020) professes to be biographical or based on a true story, but it actually bends the truth to where it would be revisionist to call it anything but fiction. The trouble I have with Ammonite is that it doesn’t celebrate paleontologist Mary Anning’s life and work …
Over the many decades of film history, we’ve come to acknowledge the great directors and pioneers of film as being mostly men: Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, and James Cameron, to name a few. But few people outside of academia look back to the early days of film, where women like Alice Guy-Blaché, Mabel Normand, and …
Even in 2021, Blade Runner (1982) hasn’t left the public consciousness. If anything, it has gained more popularity in recent years since its sequel Blade Runner 2049 made it on the scene. Recently, Jared Leto even expressed an interest in reprising his Blade Runner 2049 character, which hints at the possibility of another incarnation of …
In a parochial world of male-chauvinism, parched stay the women. Parched for a little place in the world. Parched for teensy droplets of hope in a male dominant society. A rustic village of feeble minds constantly gnaws at them, laughs brazenly at their winds of change. But despite everything that stands against them, a coterie …