“The Island President” and the Maldives Coup: Ground Zero for Climate Change & Human Rights by Jennifer Epps Watching The Island President, an environmentalist documentary that is also an inspiring biography of a unique national leader — the Maldives’ first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Nasheed — it is painful to be reminded that the Copenhagen climate [...]
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The Island President (2011)
Posted: May 2, 2012 in Jennifer EppsTags: coup, global warming, US foreign policy
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Movie still from “The Lorax” by Universal/Illumination Entertainment By Jennifer Epps The new animated feature film The Lorax is both a fable, with a young ingenue hero on a quest to win a princess and save civilization, and an animated comedy full of slapstick and throwaway one-liners. In other words, it fits right into the mass-market [...]
Women’s Work at the Oscars: The Iron Lady, The Help, and Albert Nobbs (2012)
Posted: March 3, 2012 in Jennifer EppsTags: Albert Nobbs, Oscars, The Help, The Iron Lady, women
By Jennifer Epps This Oscar season a pair of period films about the British Isles, The Iron Lady and Albert Nobbs, were nominated for their tour-de-force performances by two of America’s most established and acclaimed actresses. Meryl Streep has now won the Best Actress Oscar for her sincere and uncannily precise mimicry of Britain’s Margaret [...]
Anonymous (2011): Class, Conspiracy, and Shakespeare
Posted: February 26, 2012 in Jennifer EppsTags: Anonymous, conspiracy, Shakespeare
By Jennifer Epps Director Roland Emmerich makes a huge transition, from tentpole disaster flicks to literary whodunit, in the period piece Anonymous — which came out on DVD this month and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design. This speculative fiction feature asks whether Shakespeare was a fraud and comes up with an [...]
YOUNG ADULT When She Grows Up, She’s Going to Be Happy by Jennifer Epps The current print ad for Diablo Cody’s new comedy Young Adult shows Charlize Theron sporting uncombed hair and loungewear pajamas in an attempt to make her look disheveled and haggard – though this is of course an impossible task. It also [...]
Miss-Dragon Tattoo-Representation
Posted: December 29, 2011 in Jennifer EppsTags: exploitation, feminism, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Miss Representation
Trailer of Miss Representation by Jennifer Epps The summer’s mortifying advance poster for David Fincher’s remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo crossed my path a few months back after I had just seen the limited-release documentary Miss Representation. Fresh from Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s harrowing exposé of an insidious undeclared war on women in [...]
