Lolita's Fist

When a movie starts with four consecutive sexisms. 17 year old son pours out her liquor because he doesn't approve. He tells her to carry the box from the bottom because they've seen better days (2 criticisms embedded right here). She tells him she has a migraine and he dismisses her pain because he wants the boxes unpacked and tells her so. He arrives at school without his papers and he turns to her for them, and then apologizes for her disorganization! I exercised the Off Button. IMDB Natural Selection (2016) Actors: Amy Carlson, Katherine McNamara Director: Chad Scheifele

Don't misunderstand the Bechdel. It's not there to tell you if a movie is feminist or not. It's there to show you there are no good feminist films. For the record, I have seen one. My Bechdel-passer list: Bechdel Test

Turn the volume off and watch my favorite love scene of all time. Now promise me ~ sound off. YouTube 2:50 mins Accidental Love (2015)

🍒 Back in the day when I read dead men, I loved Nausea, and Metamorphosis. This is a fucking stunning film written by a live man, who must have loved Nausea, and Metamorphosis. I love Absurdity, love Nihilism. #Loveit. Love everything except the animal murder, which was important, very very important. Have-to-have. A rare treasure. Bechdel-passer because a woman writes a letter to another woman about how she feels and gets slapped for it. Very yucky #feminist-slating. A feminist reading of this film will have it on its back with its legs in the air. Nonetheless. IMDB The Lobster (2015)  Actors: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

The Naked Jungle (1954). If you can manage to look past the rampant racism, and the rotten sexism, Charlton Heston used to be beautiful. This Mills & Boon is written by four men, with a self-awareness that is unusual. Weirdly, it is a Heston signature to appear in movies that question sexism, although by his real personal he may have not been aware of it. As the Celluloid Closet admits, people loved to prank him for his extreme-masculinity. Still, if you can suspend your disbelief.... IMDB The Naked Jungle (1954)  Actors: Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker Director: Byron Haskin

What a load of racist paedophillic rot. Bergman is 19 and 'white enough' for 50ish bags-under-the-eyes, Gary Cooper, the Inglés. The Spanish actors darkened to make this happen. And Hemingway wrote him old, and then produced two women from thin thin thin air to cook for the men, wash their socks, and save the dead-inside man from himself. Pfft. IMDB For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)  Actors: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman Director: Sam Wood