Defiant Success

There's a sense of serendipity in that the same year Wonder Woman finally  got the big-screen treatment with her own movie, the story ...

Man, this year has been one of varied ups and downs. On the one hand, my blog turned ten and I got to travel a bit (albeit staying on the e...

Have you ever envied someone's life? Sometimes it can be from the material goods that surround the envied person, other times it's...

Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story  opens with Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) listing the many reasons why they lov...

One can never really know what goes on in someone's mind from first impressions. There are those whose personality remains impenetrabl...

Would you believe that on this day a decade ago, I started this little blog?

There's no denying that life isn't easy for women in the workplace. Sexism, bias, harassment, fewer benefits...just the tip of the...

How does someone like James Whale follow up a success like Frankenstein ? Simple: do something within the same genre. A year after making ...

In April 1963, John Lennon and his manager Brian Epstein embarked on a four-day holiday in Barcelona. Naturally, the rumor mill started sp...

Bloodshed, gender-bending, Tony Curtis as the male lead, a curvy blonde as the female lead...no, this isn't a description of Some Like...