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FemPop Flashback: Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Silence of the Lambs is a movie I can come back to time and time again. I’ve no doubt my love for it is rooted in my adolescent obsession with The X-Files. The show borrowed heavily from Silence of...
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Queen Christina: That Hypersexual Film From The 30s
Queen Christina of Sweden, like Greta Garbo, was a woman who did what she want when she wanted. She didn’t care about social contrivances or niceties. If she wanted to wear pants she wore pants. If...
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Lena Horne and Katherine Dunham Break Ground in Stormy Weather
The Help hit theaters on Wednesday and I thought it’d be fun to feature a film for For Your Consideration that was about the civil rights movie and was told from a black woman’s perspective. A nice...
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Rape Squad: The Absurd Anti-Rape Exploitation Film
Act of Vengeance (aka Rape Squad) is such an astoundingly obvious example of the time. It’s this movie that desperately wants to be a fun exploitation flick and a call to action for women. At one...
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First Female Director’s Thriller SUSPENSE Unnerving and Online
As I’m still a little obsessed with Lois Weber I thought I’d go ahead and point out one of her better short films available on YouTube. For those not in the know, Weber was a writer, director and...
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The Hays Code: Censorship, Sexism And The Code That Built Pop Culture
Contrary to popular belief the United States has always been a bit more conservative than its peers of modern western civilization. When those Puritans toddled over to escape King James’s religious...
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Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve Beguiled Censors and Audiences
Ask someone what they think of when you mention the actress Barbara Stanwyck. My mom, a baby boomer, thinks of the westerns Stanwyck did later in her career. For some reason folks my age tend to think...
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Pandora’s Box (1929) Deconstructs the Femme Fatale And Chides Her Victims
There are few characters as alluring and fascinating in classic cinema as the Femme Fatale. Their dark eyes and their curvy hips. The way they crawl into the hero’s skin. They way they give men...
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Swing Time A Gorgeous Film Complicated By Racism
I’d always heard of Swing Time. My mother taught me a love of Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films at an early age. She preferred their early work. The breezy B-couple of Flying Down to Rio and their huge...
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My Favorite Wife Highlights The Strengths Of Women In Screwball Comedy
In 1940 the screwball comedy was on its way out. There was war in Europe and Americans knew it was only a matter of time before it reached their doorsteps as well. People were nervous. By the end of...
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