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| Reviews | As noted elsewhere we aren't going to carry reviews-of-the-day or the-week or stacked up on Fridays. We're asking our reviewers to write when they have something to say (Eleanor Roosevelt: "Have something to say, say it and sit down."), when they think the film or documentary or television show will mean something particular to women. Maybe those reviewed will have come and gone, couldn't get traction, got canceled or bounced and/or we didn't even know about them. Maybe the advertisers/exhibitors/studos think, because we didn't say anything about losing these stories, that we liked being sold boy things. It might of course be that these stories are better enjoyed privately whereas the great action films are more suited to deliberate nights-out. It might be that, like our grandmothers, we talk about them with each other instead of marketing them in the public square. So maybe here we tell each other about the good ones and write about them using our language and then, whether or not the business takes note, we can find them. Maybe even at year's end we will have enough stacked up that we'll look like a marketing block (more than even a niche).
We begin this section with a selection of past reviews by Shiela Benson, just to give an example of 'our language'.
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| | | Film critic Sheila Benson has always had her own voice, significant because she never bent to the commercial 'norm', but also because she writes about what interests her in the movie and isn't shy about it interesting her. A lot of women critics follow the crowd and stay neutral, competing for being quotable or for getting the gig. That's got it's place (as in just plain getting through the day), but as in these 14 reviews from the past, Sheila insists on telling us how the movie worked on her, as her audience's stand-in, or how it didn't work on her, instead of what you should think about what the critic thinks.. | | Proceed to "Select Takes: Sheila Benson" > | | |
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