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Film Review: Bottoms (2023)

“Cult classic” isn’t a title one should too soon or too often frivolously attach to a fil. But if a queer, Gen Z, satire-comedy flick…

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Posted in Festival Review

FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Clueless (Amy Heckerling)

Teenage girls are full of contradictions. Shallow and existential, audacious and anxious, convinced of their own importance and their own invisibility simultaneously, and capable of…

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Posted in Review Year in Film

1988 in Film: In Praise of Charles Grodin in Midnight Run

There’s something uniquely American about the genre of the “buddy movie.” Ever since Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy got into all kinds of trouble together…

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1988 in Film: Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Tim Burton’s 1988 Beetlejuice fuses comedy and horror to create a classic film. With Michael Keaton in the titular role, we delve…

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Posted in Awards Season

Look at these Golden Globe Winners that were not Even Nominated at the Oscars

Welcome to the Golden Globes once again. The awards season party hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. That incorporate musical and comedy into their…

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Keith Bearden
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Exclusive Interview with Keith Bearden, Writer and Director of Antarctica

Keith Bearden is the writer and director of Antarctica, a coming of age story that confronts what it means to be a woman, and a…

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A New Leaf
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: A New Leaf (Elaine May)

It’s always special when a filmmaker is able to create a world that shows off their unique sense of humour in a comedy. With A…

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Dolemite
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Eddie Murphy Returns in a Close-to-Home Tale of Fame, Here’s My Rhyming Review of ‘Dolemite Is My Name’

If you’re looking for chuckles galore, you might not have to venture to the muthafuckin’ flicks. As Eddie Murphy is back, in Dolemite Is My…

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golden globes musical or comedy
Posted in Awards Season Podcast

Filmotomy Podcast 92: A Look Ahead at the Golden Globes Musical or Comedy Categories

Filmotomy Podcast looks at the early landscape as far as what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will deem worthy in their Musical or Comedy categories…

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Posted in Horror Review

Film Road to Halloween: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 16 days to…

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Posted in Festival Interview Women

FemmeFilmFest Interview: Actress Krista Jensen on the Comedy Short It’s Been Too Long

It took me a while to figure out the romantic leads in It’s Been Too Long, Krista Jensen and David Ebert, are married in real…

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Posted in British Film Review

Light Up My World: Blinded By The Light Review

There are some films that make you want to stand up in the aisles and dance along with the characters on the screen. Gurinder Chadha’s…

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The Jerk
Posted in Review Year in Film

1979 in Film: The Jerk

“It was never easy for me, I was born a poor black child”, spoken by the very white Steve Martin as his iconic character Navin…

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10
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1979 in Film: “10”

This is a look back at “10“, a film by Blake Edwards, that I also like to consider: “Julie Andrews is way too good to…

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