***Fierce Female Reblog*** Thoughts on… The Craft (1996) — FILM GRIMOIRE

This film is responsible for a generation of girls from the 90s experimenting with witchcraft and forming their own covens in order to levitate each other during sleepover parties. The Craft (1996, dir. Andrew Fleming) is one of those films that is so 1990s that it almost works as a time travelling device back to […]…

The Danish Girl: A Love Story

Expecting to see a biopic of Lili Elbe, one of the world's first people to undergo gender transition via medical procedures, I was surprised to witness instead a remarkable and heartbreaking love story. The "inspired by" tagline translates into a "very, very loosely based" biopic, but that's so okay. Especially if you're a romantic.   Lili Elbe, exquisitely…

Words o’ Wisdom Wednesday

  Isn't it the sad truth for book lovers that whenever the powers that be decide to take one of your favorite books and run it through the celluloid engine, they inevitably skrimp on substance? As both a self-proclaimed bibliophile and avid cinephile, this fact is one of the most heart-wrending banes of my existence.…