Letterboxd: Fat Girls on Film
When Kate Hagen’s mission to curate a cinematic canon for fat girls came up short, she searched out films that best transcend ‘fat girl’ tropes, and suggests how Hollywood can serve an audience neglected by decades of poorly drawn caricatures.
31 Days of Feminist Horror Films on The Black List Blog
Thoughts on more than 75 films, including CARRIE, SUSPIRIA, RAW, MS. 45, THE LURE, GINGER SNAPS, VARIETY, NEAR DARK, CAT PEOPLE…
TCM: Summer of Darkness—Thoughts on Film Noir
My favorite quality of noir is its sense of dark humor, even in the bleakest of situations, so it should come as no surprise that most of my favorite submissions to #NoirSummer have some comedic bite to them. These tweets all have a complete story, consistent voice, and distinctive point of view within only 140 characters, and make great use of wordplay to provide some new life to noir staples – mystery women who spell trouble, or worse yet, ruin; the boozy, put-upon lives of our schmuck heroes; the dichotomy of hot and cold imagery within the external environments of these stories.
Seed & Spark: Getting Your Screenplay Reader-Ready
When you’re presenting your work to a professional reader, mixing up your to/two/too’s on page one is going to be a dead giveaway that you aren’t ready to be presenting your work on a professional level. Some entities in the film industry will even chuck a script into the recycling bin after ten pages if there are pervasive formatting issues.