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The first scene has disgusted me. A six years old girl goes with a man she doesn't know for ice cream. While I was writing this the second scene disgusted me too. I don't hold out hope for redemption. The problem with movies is the addictive nature of the Pollyanna Phallussy. Because Sinatra ended up without the girl in the last piece of disgusting doggydooda, now I keep hoping. Sigh. IMDB Final Girl (2015) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124787/ Actors: Abigail Breslin, Wes Bentley Director: Tyler Shields

#Feminism and #FatActivism. The rise of feminism coincides with the drop in blood sugar since you guys had us on salad diets. Makes sense, my mother had me on salad until I was 21. A couple of decades of low blood sugar is bound to piss anyone off.

My favorite film ever. It has stayed at the top all these years. The first one was my favorite. Not the director's cut. It's so crazy that today is Leon's Inception Date. Happy Inception Date, Leon. I'm glad there weren't many more. Article: Happy Inception Date, Leon by Matt Novalk IMDB Blade Runner (1982)  Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer Director: Ridley Scott

🍒 A rare Bechdel-passer that is a really good movie. It's gone onto my have-to-have list. I provide no spoilers, but I suggest a strong coffee before. Thank you, lurker Segomotso Tselapedi, for knowing me so well that you made it a special evening for us, with fried tomato, my favorite. IMDB Miss Sloane (2016)  Actors: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong Director: John Madden

#Feminism. Laura Dern, "Reality television has opened a door for real women to appear on TV. Women are no longer imprisoned in have-to-be-sweet, no-temper, no-angry, no-personality boxes. People are getting used to the idea that women are people." #ParaphrasingGenius

Janeane Garafalo out of Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2014-)? I'm out of here. Seriously? And we're left, again, with sycophantic people-pleasers. Loved Garafalo because she shows how those SexInTheCity types can exist in the same world with ordinary women. I guess that will never be true. Ah well.

🍒 #LoveIt. Bechdel-passer because lipstick, firing, betrayal. And the Afghan women speak to Tina Fey about water offscreen. An extraordinary moment. I know nothing about Afghanistan. IMDB Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) Actors: Tina Fey, Margot Robbie Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

#Aargh. Passes the Bechdel because Emma Watson is told to shut up. And she is told she's dangerous because she's brainy. IMDB The Colony (2015) Actors: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl Director: Florian Gallenberger

Graham Norton Show.  # RapeCulture  (men are aware, or Simon Amstell is anyway). Simon Amstell speaking to Didier Drogba, "So you're a football player who likes consensual sex with one person." Audience claps madly, Didier Drogba says, "Thank you." Graham Norton says, "Controversial!" IMDB Graham Norton Show (Talk Show)  Host: Graham Norton

🍒 Passes the Bechdel because one woman tells another to make coffee. #SYK IMDB The Hateful Eight (2015)  Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell Director: Quentin Tarantino

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

Do I have to let it pass the Bechdel on a conversation where the child-Susanah-York plays with her mother's make-up and her mother has a Sybil-like meltdown re 'painted ladies'. Must I? Aren't discussions about 'painted ladies' actually about men obliquely? IMDB Freud (1962)  Actors: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York Director: John Huston

🍒 Cat Stevens' song, "If you want to sing out". One of my favorite movies of all time. A musthave. "If you want to be me, be me. If you want to be you, be you. If you want to be free, be free." YouTube If you want to sing out, by Cat Stevens IMDB Harold and Maude (1971) Actors: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort Director: Hal Ashby

#Feminism Aargh. He managed her from the back. He was the manager, she cried for most of the film and was a 'quirky' (not serious) boss who was unable to manage her staff (messy dump table) unable to use them effectively (she treats a fellow woman with a business degree like a girl friday and she cries too) she can't have it all (her husband wanders off) but it's ok because a man tells her she has to replace herself with a fab (a man, as it happens, no women mentioned) CEO of her choice, a man manages her life behind her back and her husband manages her family. And, it's not a Bechdel-passer. What a surprise. IMDB  The Intern (2015) Actors: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway Director: Nancy Meyers

Yuck. And I had to pass it on the Bechdel because of a 2sec goodbye. IMDB Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)  Actors: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum Director: Roland Emmerich