Movie Reviews
In 1998, I reviewed movies as Cybergrrl's "Moviegrrl." Because the goal of the reviews was to spur conversation in (and traffic to) the site's chat rooms, I elected to take a personal approach to them: reviewing the movies through the prism of women's lives. These are my favorites.
The X-Files
The first thing I learned when I started watching The X-Files
on TV was that David Duchovny has good lips. Not always, but often. On
a good-lip episode, they're full and just a little pouty and — this is
the important part — the ridge setting them off from the rest of his face
is particularly sharp...
The Avengers
I'm going to say something some fans of the original Avengers
will find shocking: The Avengers series wasn't about a black leather
jumpsuit...
Lolita
This, explains Humbert Humbert, is how he came to be obsessed with young
girls. Almost gives you whiplash, doesn't it? We have Adrian Lyne's new film
version of Lolita to thank...
Beloved
"Not a house in the country ain't packed to its rafters with some dead Negro's grief," Sethe's mother-in-law says in Toni Morrison's book, Beloved. "We lucky this ghost is a baby." Lucky? Maybe. But babies are a moody species, and this one runs Sethe's house...
