Friday, July 1 2011
Was Megan Fox Right? The Women of ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is another exercise in the one-dimensional portrayal of women for Michael Bay.
Monday, April 11 2011
“It Will Change the Genre Forever”: An Interview with “The Walking Dead’s” Jeryl Prescott
"It seemed like an odd marriage: Frank Darabont and AMC ... and zombies." Jeryl Prescott talks about how her Southern roots prepared her for this story of zombie apocalypse in the South.
Friday, March 18 2011
Fall 2011-12: It’s Pilot Season, People
Pan Am isn’t not the only pilot trying to capitalize in this post-Mad Men world.
Monday, August 16 2010
The Danger of ‘Girl Comics’
There's always the risk that efforts like the “Women of Marvel” are token exercises, small measures taken in lieu of further reaching commitments to change in how women are regarded, as characters, as creators, and ultimately, as readers.
Wednesday, June 9 2010
Janes Smiley’s Excellent Prose and Sly Humor are Here in ‘Private Life’
Smiley never writes a book without placing her characters amidst upheaval; here it's war, along with scientific advances and technologies like the telephone, the 1906 earthquake, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.
Monday, November 30 2009
Girl Trouble by Holly Goddard Jones
If this came with a CD, I know what would be on it – Neko Case, The Drive-By Truckers, Gillian Welch, Kings of Leon, The Band and Mason Jennings. Like these artists, Jones makes America come alive.
Thursday, January 22 2009
Part 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu
From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.
Monday, July 7 2008
Women: Women
Calgary's most impossible band to Google shows Canada got and understood the Velvet Underground.
