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Female FIlmmaker Project: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily...
Taken on it's own "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is a very striking title. It conjures up real world horror of being a woman and existing after the sun is down. However, the film belies any notion...
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Female Filmmaker Project: REALiTi (Claire Boucher, 2015)
 I still remember everything about arriving in St. Johns by airplane in September last year. I was on the way to finally live with the person whom I had been in a relationship with for years, and I...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe Von Trotta, 1981)
I love films about the relationships women have with one another. The sheer willingness to do anything for another woman, and the strength that comes through in knowing you have an un-severable bond...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Female Misbehavior (Monika Truet, 1992)
Female Misbehavior isn't much of a movie. I've watched a lot of documentary-esque features lately and it all becomes a bit wearying when they drop the pretext of cinema and movies just become an...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Fashion in Susan Seidelman's SMITHEREENS &...
I stood, staring in the mirror at a Target in Philadelphia after I slid on a pair of ripped skin tight jeans and a simple blue and white stripped top with an open neck and it felt right. I had been...
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Best for Busines: WWE in 2004
Best for Business will be a recurring series at Curtsies and Hand Grenades discussing one year of pay per views currently available on the WWE Network through general overiews, a ranked list of...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
Abstract Images, Dual imagery and a focus on bodies through intimate gestures in Point Break are used to represent the paralell arc of both Bodhi and Johnny Utah. Once they crossed paths they were...
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Blood and Ballet: A Top 100 in Horror
I've always tried to unpack why horror appeals to me and why I like to tread closely to the edge of some of the most depressing and upsetting violent cinema that there is but I've never been able to...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Girlhood (Celine Sciamma, 2014)
Girlhood. The very title is more than any movie could handle, and being brandished with such a huge name would speak to the very complexities that girls go through as they reach womanhood, and the...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer, 1974)
Dyketactics: tactile cinema by way of lesbian expression and complete reclamation of the body in the face of a longstanding history of male gaze upon women's bodies and the fetishization of queer...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Menses (Barbara Hammer, 1974)
There's this Heavens to Betsy song that surfaced out of the riot grrrl movement entitled My Red Self , it's an angry anthem about how menstruation is treated as something to cover up and hide by...
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Female Filmmaker Project: SuperDyke (Barbara Hammer, 1975)
If Themyscria is a supposed feminine ideal and a place of paradise for Amazonian Women in Wonder Woman then Barbara Hammer's movies seek out to create Themyscria for lesbians within her cinema....
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Existing: Transgender Representation in Sense8
It's easy to say representation doesn't matter when you have all of filmed media to choose from. White boys grow up knowing they can be anything and do anything, because film and television lets them...
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My Favourite Examples of Filmed Media of the Half Year: 2015
(this is a still from Jools Holland, not the 9:30 club, but you get the point)Sleater-Kinney: Live at the 9:30 ClubThe news of Sleater-Kinney's resurrection surfaced sometime in early October. There...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Tank Girl (Rachel Talalay, 1995)
Rachel Talalay wanted to make an action picture that was like nothing else currently on the market. She was fed up with the idea of female action heroes whose characteristics were identical to that of...
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Female Filmmaker Project: Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940)
 I cannot speak objectively with movies about dance. There is no greater sense of joy than the intersection of music, plus cinema, plus movement. The moments where characters simply decide it's time to...
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Madness and Women: Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015)
 I'm excited. A final still frame of Elisabeth Moss trapped in laughter gives way to credits and I feel disheveled, invigorated, surprised and unsure. I want to say what I experienced was something...
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Queerness and Corn: Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
The two images above offer a snapshot of the stylistic differences one can come to expect from Xavier Dolan's attempt at stripping down his aesthetics to suit the text surrounding his queer thriller,...
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Everlasting Maternity: Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii, 1985)
An apocalyptic pall hangs over an unnamed land and one girl lurches forward in the shadows. Her spaghetti hair is knotted and overtakes her frail body, tattered oversized clothing covers her alabaster...
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I Want It That Way: Magic Mike XXL
*Analysis of a scene will be a feature on Curtsies and Hand Grenades where I take a look at specific scenes in movies and discuss them. Today I am going to look at 4 moments from Magic Mike XXL and how...
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