Roman Polanski; No Sympathy
It’s not OK to drug and rape children; sex with a child is rape. People who admit to raping children and flee the country should be brought to justice....
View ArticleFemale Filmmakers; Women Directors
There’s an interesting article over at Film School Rejects which basically lists about a hundred films directed by women. Now, I do appreciate that there are not very many women directors, or at...
View Article100 Favorite Female Characters OnScreen
This was actually really hard. I could shoot you off 100 dudes in no time, but I had to do a lot of IMDb surfing to find these. So, who am I missing? 1. Abbey Bartlett, Stockard Channing (The West...
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Why I Write for Children; Why I love Children’s Media
Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket knows that children have the best appreciation for the imagination at work. I’m not there because I subscribe to the specious and lunkheaded notion that children are...
View ArticleAdvice for 2010 Grads Coming to LA; 15 things
The Bitter Script Reader posted some advice about how to survive to move to LA. I tried to comment over there and it won’t let me, but this is what I said. 1) Get settled so that you’re as comfortable...
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Tron: Legacy: Where are all the women?
The Poster I’m the first to admit that sexism and lack of reasonable representations of women in movies doesn’t always bother me, especially if the movie is entertaining otherwise. The original Star...
View ArticleAshley’s 2010 top 10
Since I’ve just watched all of the Oscars out of some sort of masochistic impulse, I felt like I should do my top 10 list of the year. 1. I Love You, Phillip Morris 2. The King’s Speech 3. The Social...
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What’s Up?
I cannot tell you how excited I am to be joining Freethought Blogs. Interestingly enough, I was asked to join FtB exactly 2 years after I started blogging about skepticism and atheism. I am a...
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2012 Movies, Part 1: Top 5 Films
The Extraordinary Fantastic movies of 2012 I’ve seen a lot of movies this year and wanted to discuss all of them in-depth, but realized that was way too much for one post. So, to start with, this is a...
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Ashley’s 2014 Oscar’s Predictions
As you may or may not know, I get screeners every year, so I usually see most of the nominated movies. Here are my predictions and opinions on the categories for this year (except the shorts). EDIT: I...
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