Melissa Wellham
film previews: new this week – 1st july
Melissa Wellham previews films new this week – including the incredibly anti-feminist ‘Eclipse.’
film previews: new this week – 24th june
Melissa Wellham previews films new this week – and aside from Toy Story 3, it’s slim pickings.
dvd review: the post-grad survival guide
Melissa Wellham reviews ‘The Post-Grad Survival Guide’ – out now on DVD.
sex sells
Melissa Wellham looks at what ‘Sex and The City’ is selling women – and it’s more than shoes.
films: new this week, 3rd june
Sex and the City 2 (Dir. Michael Patrick King) In the second instalment of this supposedly empowering, somewhat feminist-friendly franchise, the Sex and the City women – Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda – travel on an all-expenses-paid trip to Abu Dhabi. Once there, they flagrantly disrespect the culture and customs of the area, while wearing [...]
films: new this week, 20th may
Harry Brown (Dir. Daniel Barber) Harry Brown, starring two-time Academy Award winner Michael Caine, is a violent, visceral film that pits the moral codes of stiff upper-lipped Old Britainia (represented by Michael Cain’s law-abiding senior citizen) against modern Britain (where the wild youths run rampant). When Brown’s only friend is killed, he becomes obsessed with [...]
album review: she & him, volume two
She and Him’s appropriately titled second offering, Volume Two, is just as peachy keen and deliciously twee as its predecessor. She is Zooey Deschanel, actress come songstress; he is M Ward, producer and talented musician under his own name. This time around Miss Deschanel is obviously more confident in her roles as both singer and [...]
Procreating Working Women Are Greedy?
Mia Freedman (Australian magazine Madame, ex-editor of Cosmo and Dolly) raised an interesting – and infuriating – idea on her blog recently. The idea? Women who want to work and procreate are becoming greedy. They want all the benefits of having a job (say, a sense of self-satisfaction and an income) as well as the [...]
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