First, a big ol’ apology to the always awesome People of Colour in SF Carnival, which posted a day or two before we did our carnival last week. My Google Reader was overflowing and I totally missed it. Go there! Go there now!
News blurbs recently:
- Ghost in the Shell going to be adapted in 3-D.
- Moon Bloodgood has been cast as the female lead in Terminator 4 (she’s also now in Street Fighter, says Cinematical)
- Finally, A Dystopia Grim Enough For Vin Diesel with stills from Babylon A.D. on io9
Bizarre interview reprinted from USA Today at ComicBookMovie.com: The Supergirlfriends of Batman, Hulk & Iron Man. Gwyneth Paltrow apparently thinks “Comic books are still for boys.” Maybe that’s why she was so lifeless in Iron Man? Maybe if you’re going to get caught sneaking into an office, you should at least TRY to bluff instead of just looking terrified? Maybe when your boyfriend is on the roof, you could try yelling “Get off the roof, dammit!” instead of screaming “But you’ll die!”
To be fair, Patrick at The Hathor legacy thought Pepper was fine. Jess McCabe has something to say about it on The F-Word blog, and links to this awesome post at WOC PhD.
Elisabeth Rappe over at Cinematical asserts that Frank Miller Loves Tough Girls, in reference to the forthcoming film The Spirit.
(I love the descriptions of the women in this synopsis from Lionsgate:
…a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are ELLEN DOLAN (Sarah Paulson), the whip-smart girl-next-door; SILKEN FLOSS (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; PLASTER OF PARIS (Paz Vega), a murderous French nightclub dancer; LORELEI (Jaime King), a phantom siren; and MORGENSTERN (Stana Katic), a sexy young cop. Then of course, there’s SAND SAREF (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves. She’s the love of his life turned bad.
With characters like that, how can we lose? Oh, I mean, how can we win?)
Sarah Seltzer gives us a little link love in Take Back The Screen at R H RealityCheck, analyzing the portrayal of rape and assault in film. She mentions 300 and Spiderman, so go take a look.
I have a really hard time believing that Zombie Strippers is an intellectual feast.
The 58th Carnival of the Feminists is up at Be A Good Human, who then moved to Hop To It.
This post was originally published on Heroine Content, a feminist and anti-racist movie blog that ran from July 2006 to May 2012.
“ELLEN DOLAN (Sarah Paulson)”
That line’ll make we want to see it. I’ve had silly levels of adoration for Sarah Paulson ever since American Gothic.
Thanks for the shoutouts! This is an awesome edition of the CoF, BTW!