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Think of the Children! Tuesday: On Ruining 'My Neighbor Totoro'
What is it about human nature that as soon as we have something sweet and pure and wonderful we immediately try to ruin it by making it "dark" and "gritty"? It's like looking at something lovely for...
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Thank Goodness 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' Isn't Very Good
Let's get this out of the way first thing: Alice Through the Looking Glass is not a very good movie. At all. It's disorganized and emotionally unsatisfying, beautiful to look at but baffling to...
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Masculinity Monday: The Bro-y Sweetness of 'Check, Please!'
So how many of you have heard of "soft bro" culture? I'm guessing only a few, and those of you who have heard of it are probably like me and live on tumblr way too much. "Soft bro" culture can best be...
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'X-Men: Apocalypse' Should Have Been All About the Ladies
If the past seven X-Men franchise films have taught us anything, it’s that ultimately there are only three characters who matter: Wolverine, Professor X, and Magneto. Anyone else in the series,...
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Masculinity Monday: 'The Flash's Joe West and the Superhero Family
Today's article is a guest post from our recurring writer Trey Stewart.For all that The Flash is a TV show and comic series about the fastest person alive fighting various bad guys and saving the...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Whitney Frost (Agent Carter)
The second season of Agent Carter was not the show at its best - we all kind of know that. For all that there are only two seasons of the show, it's not hard to see that the second season was when the...
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Masculinity Monday: The Boring, Stable Other Guy in 'Ant-Man'
I'll be the first to admit that the masculinity on display in most of Marvel's Ant-Man isn't exactly exemplary. As presented by Hank Pym and Scott Lang, masculinity seems to be all about imposing your...
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'The Prince and Me' Is a Horror Movie for Single Women
I remember how in 2004, when The Prince and Me came out, my heart would flitter-flutter at the idea of a charming European prince like Eddie coming into my life, seeing my nerdy, over-achieving glory,...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Jen Barkley (Parks and Recreation)
Truth be told, I'm ambivalent about having kids. While I actually really enjoy children in small doses, and I did spend a couple of years interacting with them in very large doses, I don't know if that...
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Fourth of July with the Captains America, Patriot, and Miss America
Well chickadees, we've made it to the middle of the year. Good job to all of us. It was hard and sometimes the downright shitty state of the world made it even harder, but we made it here. In the...
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Masculinity Monday: Worf, A Man (Klingon) of Honor
Today's Masculinity Monday comes to us from guest writer Trey Stewart. Trey's previous posts for us include SFC Fridays on Nimah and Raina Amin and Alex Parrish from Quantico, as well as a recent post...
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HIATUS: Ghostbusters, Iceland, New Job, and More!
Okay chickadees, it's official. After months of job-hunting and looking for the absolute perfect fit, after getting rejected from all of the universities I applied to and having to deal with the...
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Is It...Is It Time? Can We Come Back Now? Is the Coast Clear?
Well, it has been a pretty dang full just-under-two-months since I last talked to all of you! I went to Iceland (amazing), started my new job (satisfying), and began looking for apartments that don't...
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'Suicide Squad' Is Awful, But Probably Not For the Reason You Think
It shouldn't come as any surprise to all of you that I didn't particularly care for Suicide Squad. In a summer of divisive movies, this one has been up there with Ghostbusters in its ability to tear...
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'Super Mutant Magic Academy' Is Hogwarts for the Rest of Us
How can I best put this? If Hogwarts and Xavier's School for the Gifted had a school-baby, it would be Super Mutant Magic Academy. I'm not entirely sure that's the official name of the school in...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Clayborne (Au Service de la France)
Here is a fact: When I was fifteen, my cat died. Or she ran away. We've never been entirely sure, but even money is that the leg we found in the driveway was hers, so she probably died. Still, the...
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'Equity' - Finally a Movie that Lets Women Really Really Like Money
Money and I have always had a bit of a tense relationship. Maybe it's because I've never had very much of it. Maybe it's because I've never known quite what to do with it when I did have it. Maybe...
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'The Raven King' and the Secret of What We All Really Want: Friends
Okay, so admittedly that title is kind of obvious. There aren't a whole lot of people out there who are going to deny that the thing we all want in life, or at least one of the things we want very...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Isabelle Lightwood (Shadowhunters)
I heard Isabelle Lightwood has two Fendi purses and a silver Lexus. I heard Isabelle Lightwood does car commercials in Japan. One time Isabelle Lightwood punched me in the face. It was awesome. Her...
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Masculinity Monday: Poe Dameron (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
More like Poe Daaaaaaaaamneron, right?Anyway, your eyes do not deceive you. Masculinity Monday is back, albeit temporarily. From September 15 to October 15, we're celebrating National Hispanic/Latino...
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'Star Trek Beyond' Isn't Perfect, But It Is Definitely Star Trek
When I try to describe my enjoyment of Star Trek Beyond to people, and rest assured that my enjoyment is well worth describing, it feels like all I can ever come up with, "It's so much more Star Trek...
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Strong Female Character Friday: America Chavez (Marvel Comics)
Look, I don't mean to be inflammatory here, but I'm pretty sure the phrase, "She's beauty, she's grace, she'll punch you in the face" was originally intended to refer to one America Chavez, aka Miss...
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Strong Female Character Friday: April Ludgate-Dwyer (Parks & Rec)
If the spicy, fiery* Latina is the stereotype equivalent of a trashcan fire, April Ludgate-Dwyer is the smothering fire extinguisher foam putting it out. And I can say that because we all this is a...
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The End of the Beginning (But Also Mostly Just the End of This)
Heya chickadees. You might have noticed that the blog has tapered off a bit in the past few weeks, despite my continued promises that I really would finish Hispanic Heritage Month with all those neat...
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Missing Kiss My Wonder Woman? Try Together Breakfast!
Hi Friends! I should preface this by saying that Kiss My Wonder Woman, wonderful though it was, isn't coming back. I am, however, working on something new and exciting: a newsletter called Together...
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