Pouring myself a cup of ambition: ‘9 to 5’ meets #MeToo
Feature posted November 2019, bringing our feature back for Dolly Parton’s birthday! Before #MeToo there was “9 to 5.” It wasn’t a hashtag, but it was a movement nonetheless. Dolly Parton wrote the song “9 to 5”, which shared the same title of the film, and it opened the movie. The song has become an […]
Sonejuhi Sinha’s refreshingly raw thriller ‘Stray Dolls’ flips the American dream
The American clichés of “Bonnie and Clyde”, the “American Dream”, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, are mixed together in the refreshingly raw new movie, “Stray Dolls”. It focuses on three women who are outsiders living on the outside of the law: Riz (Geetanjali Thapa), a petty criminal and an immigrant from India; Dallas (Olivia […]
‘Bombshell’ brings #MeToo to the big screen
[over the phone]Megyn Kelly: Ready to go to war?Gretchen Carlson: Oh, yeah. “Bombshell” (2019) Spoilers revealed Being interviewed by my soon-to-be boss, I could tell he thought I was good looking, that he thought I was sexy. Maybe it was the dress I was wearing, or the makeup I had on my face–these were actual thoughts that […]