Articles Tagged gender

REVIEW: His & Hers

Ken Wardrop’s debut feature documentary opens with an old Irish proverb: “A man loves his girlfriend the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest”. An exploration of family, relationships, age and gender, His & Hers might be seen as an attempt to address the question, what do women really think of the […]

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – April 12th

In this episode of Plato’s Cave the team review Sucker Punch, In a Better World and How I Ended This Summer plus we discuss the contemporary state of children’s cinema. With Josh Nelson, Thomas Caldwell and Tara Judah. Plato’s Cave – April 12th Episode (.MP3)

ANALYSIS: She Reminds Me of He: Gender Ambivalence in ‘True Grit’

For mine, the defining moment of Henry Hathaway’s True Grit (1969) occurs towards the beginning of the film. Given the slip by the two men charged with hunting down her father’s killer, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) takes chase only to be refused passage on the river barge that the pair have boarded. Not to be […]

ANALYSIS: Toy Story 3: The Sex/Gender Debate

Despite the overwhelmingly positive chorus of support for Pixar’s latest animated feature, Toy Story 3 has found its way into the news recently amidst claims regarding the film’s negative and potentially harmful depiction of its characters. Amongst the most vocal of critics is MS. Magazine blogger Natalie Wilson who, in her piece ‘Third Time Still […]

FEATURE: Tarantino Comes of Age

Sixteen years and five films after the release of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino is finally beginning to prove that as a filmmaker he’s no mere fly-by-night trend hopper or one-trick pop-culture pony. If anything, with the release of his latest film Death Proof, the man once credited with bringing hyper-violence back into Hollywood, has begun […]

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