Feminist Readings on 1950s Cinema: Sleeping Beauty, or, How the Fluff-Heads Save the Kingdom.

22Jan10

After watching the Princess and the Frog (which is amazing and adorable, by the way), I felt compelled to track down and watch some more Disney princess movies, starting with Sleeping Beauty. Since I’m now watching movies from a feminist perspective, instead of the 6-year-old perspective I had when I last saw this film, I […]

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Tags: 1950s, animated, Disney

My Cousin Rachel

22Jan10

Back when I first started writing reviews, I watched this very dramatic old movie which was almost worth watching up until the last five minutes, when you discovered the twist ending. Now, most twist endings, you find out that something horrible actually happened, or someone you liked was actually evil. However, in this twist ending, […]

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Tags: 1950s, thriller