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MY SUMMER AS A GOTH

November 11, 2020 By Leave a Comment

MY SUMMER AS A GOTH

MY SUMMER AS A GOTH ticks all the right boxes for a YA story designed to offer the comfort of the familiar in a framework that sets up a gaggle of paper tigers for the heroine (and her audience) to confront. A brooding bad boy, a dangerous bad boy, and a tempestuous mother-daughter relationship provide… Read More »

Tagged With: crypt, dead father, Goth, mother-daughter relationship, summer romance

PRINCESS

May 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment

PRINCESS

  PRINCESS is an intimately observed film that forces us to face some uncomfortable truths.  Told with unflinching honesty, completely eschewing the sensational in favor of the perceptive, we are plunged into a 12-year-old’s waking nightmare lived in a highly sexualized atmosphere created by her mother and her mother’s live-in boyfriend. The girl is Adar… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, imaginary friend, inappropriate bonding, Israel, mother-daughter relationship, pedophilia, puberty

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

November 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

Full of emotion, but never cheap sentimentality, there is a refreshing honesty in the way MISS YOU ALREADY depicts Milly’s battle with cancer, including being called out by being called a cancer bully by Jess. It’s one of the things we talked about on October 9th, 2015, as well as shopping with Jacqueline Bissett, shaving… Read More »

Tagged With: breast cancer, cancer, cancer bully, female bonding, Frances de la Tour, friendship, head shaving, Heathcliff, Mayo Clinic, mother-daughter relationship, nun crush, Oscar Isaac, Seth Maxwell, stage-four cancer, The Thirst Foundation, Vatican, Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire moors

Listen to GRANDMA

August 28, 2015 By 1 Comment

Listen to GRANDMA

After her granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), has confided to her that she needs an abortion, Elle (Lily Tomlin) cuts right to the heart of the issue.  Not the politics, mind you. Nor the question of how a modern teenager like Sage, someone with plenty of birth-control options, found herself in this position. Elle says the… Read More »

Tagged With: abortion, Betty Friedan, credit cards, GRANDMA, grief, Lily Tomlin, mother-daughter relationship, narrative, Oscar contender, Paul Weitz, women's movement

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