Switchblade Sisters
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Switchblade Sisters is a podcast providing deep cuts on genre flicks from a female perspective. Every week, film critic and screenwriter April Wolfe sits down with a phenomenal female film-maker to slice-and-dice a classic genre movie - horror, exploitation, sci-fi and many others! Along the way, they cover craft, the state of the industry, how films get made, and more. Mothers, lock up your sons, the Switchblade Sisters are coming!
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Now I know why I was confused about not remembering 'Donnie Darko' from my youth. The movie was set in the 80's but came out in 2001. I kept thinking "Why don't I remember hearing about this movie?" There were plenty of movies I had heard about and never watched, like 'Chucky' or 'Blade Runner' or heard about and watched years later like 'The Fifth Element' and 'Gremlins', but I couldn't figure out why I had no memory of 'Donnie Darko'. Now I know and because of the unfortunate timing of its release and the mixed feelings about the movie that I keep hearing about the movie.
Thank you for warning me off of the director of 'Brazil'. He sounds like a piece of work. I love your podcast. I get to understand and enjoy movies I might not have heard about or wasn't sure about watching.
I also identified with male characters in books and movies growing up. They had the adventures, they did the dangerous exciting things in most of the stories available to me growing up. There were fairy tales who had a girl who saved the day, Gretel rescued Hansel from the witch, the girl saved the boy from the Snow Queen, there was a girl who wore through three pairs of stone shoes traveling, the girl who weaves shirts out of nettles to rescue her brothers and Alice from Wonderland and Dorothy from Oz, but so many more books and movies had the male character as the hero. I think that is why I love fairy tales, female characters were allowed to do something other than helplessly scream (like in far too many films) They didn't carry around swords, the girls and women in fairy tales were clever and kind and had a strength that had less to do with muscle and more to do with willpower. Ladyhawk and Princess Leia were gentle, caring and STRONG.
I agree with her opinion on action movies. I fast forwarded through the action scenes of Marvel Winter Soldier so I could watch the character scenes between Black Widow and Captain America.
when was fire walk with me added to criterion collection?