Eating disorders can be a difficult subject for movies. Problems that mostly pertain to women don’t seem to be taken as seriously in general, and this is an issue most assume has an easy cure. Why don’t they just…you know,…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×10 Review: Night
Harvey Milk was right when he said, “You gotta give ’em hope.” In a world where The Handmaid’s Tale seems more possible than ever, you can hardly blame the series for granting its audience mercies that the source material would…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×9 Review: The Bridge
It’s good that The Handmaid’s Tale is going back to basics, even if it stumbles a bit yet again in the episode The Bridge. The show has shifted its gaze back to Offred, who is continuing her commitment to fight…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×8 Review: Jezebels
The Handmaid’s Tale seems to flounder when it takes its eyes off its female leads. When the series shifted gears and explored Serena Joy’s history, it was a fascinating look at how women can be complicit in the brutalization of…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×7 review: The Other Side
The Handmaid’s Tale episode The Other Side has everything we’re supposed to want in a show about an all too plausible dystopia. There’s a slow build from a period of relative calm to a whole lot of action, tragedy, and…
Movie Review: Baywatch
The only thing to say about the Baywatch movie is that it could have been worse. Really. Then again, Hollywood probably should’ve known better than to try to update it, even in our current era of endless reboots, prequels, sequels,…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×6 Review: A Woman’s Place
When someone remarks, “I guess you get used to things being one way,” in The Handmaid’s Tale episode A Woman’s Place, it feels like a warning. True, the whole series serves as a kind of cautionary tale of what we…
