I have seen NONE of the Fast and Furious movies before. I know there are cars, and explosions, and cars, and Vin Diesel flexes and so does Dwayne Johnson. I asked Twitter to catch me up in the 13 minutes before my showing started, and… Twitter obliged. https://twitter.com/lilisonna/status/852671586360545280 Anyway, serious attempt: They started off as criminals who race cars. Now they apparently save the world and race cars. — 1-800-hun-i-bun (@ashleyeleigh) April 13, 2017 … Continue reading Movie Review: The Fate of the Furious →
TW for rape, animal harm, and the general shitbaggery of Nazi occupation of Poland during WWII. I’m gonna be straight up with you here: this is a difficult watch. It’s a movie about the Holocaust, so that’s one layer, but it’s also about a zoo in wartime. And it’s about an occupied city in wartime. There’s also a young girl who gets raped, so if you want to tap out right here, I don’t blame … Continue reading Movie Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife →
I drink a lot of tea. A lot of tea. And I’m pretty snobby about what I drink — loose leaf only, preferably Assam or Sencha or Rooibos. I’m kind of a tea brat. I’m always looking for new teas, though, so the True Tea Club subscription service really intrigued me. This service is UK based and ships worldwide, and they kindly provided me with a sample month to review. There are three subscription levels: standard, … Continue reading True Tea Club Subscription Service →
When I first started listening to the Knit 1, Geek 2 podcast I immediately felt as though I had found my people. This podcast is a wonderful blend of discussion regarding knitting, geek culture, gaming, movies and television. The hosts, Karen and Maggie, are both funny and also welcoming. They use the f-word liberally. It’s like sitting down with friends you didn’t know you had. I love to knit (if you didn’t already know), and … Continue reading Podcast Review: Knit 1, Geek 2 →
Although it’s no longer a new release, I feel compelled to write a review of Kong: Skull Island if for no other reason than to inform our readers that Tom Hiddleston’s clothes stay on all the way through the movie. This is a fun popcorn movie that offers two hours of carnage, a smidgen of comedy, and a feminist heroine. It is not deep and it does not make any sense whatsoever. It delivers what … Continue reading Movie Review: Kong: Skull Island →
Monday night, The Bitches gathered around our TV sets to watch To Walk Invisible, a PBS drama about the Brontë siblings. Since we all live in different time zones, we gathered around our individual sets, but there was still a certain camaraderie in the air as we asked each other, “Why do these children have flaming halos over their heads?” and yelled, “Branwell, you ass!” at our screens. The Brontës were a brilliant but troubled family … Continue reading Movie Review: To Walk Invisible →
I promised you all that we would give you our thoughts on the new live-action Beauty and the Beast, and here are the spoilery thoughts of me and Elyse. Elyse and I? Both of us. The top part here is pretty spoiler-free, and then we get into the details, but we’ll mark when that starts. Elyse: So I loved it. LOVED IT. Would watch again a thousand times. I know intellectually it was not perfect and … Continue reading Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast →
Sarah: One of the reasons we started this feature was to both explore romantic comedies, a film genre that isn’t appearing in theatres much at all anymore, and to explore the films we love to see if they still hold up. With this film, so many people I know and respect adore this movie that I know it should be very good. “Can I play?” “You nice?” Redheadedgirl: “I told you I was nice! I’m … Continue reading Smart Bitches Movie Matinee: Love & Basketball →
NB: Please be warned that this movie does feature violence and abuse against children and teens. … We got your female rage RIGHT HERE. This is the most recent installation in the X-Men Series. Set in the not-to-distant future where mutants are mostly gone, Logan is an old, broken man who gets saddled with a tiny, violent, mini-girl!Logan, and a classic road trip ensues. With a lot of eviscerations. IMPORTANT NOTE: there will be some … Continue reading Movie Review: Logan →
I feel like my love of the “royal dude falls in love with commoner girl and complications ensue” plot line is well-enough known. Now, take that plot, make it real, and have the complications include “family of royal dude is willing to cause an international cascading incident over it, and also the British Empire and the government of South Africa both hate this idea and are willing to pitch the biggest shitfit EVER over it” and you … Continue reading Movie Review: A United Kingdom →
In 1958, two people got married. Quite a few people did, but these two set into motion a chain of events that led to one of the great civil rights Supreme Court cases of the 1960s. Richard Loving was White, and Mildred Jeter was Black, and they lived in Virginia, where interracial marriage was not legal. Loving was released in theaters in November, and is now on most of your favorite streaming platforms. Ruth Negga, … Continue reading Movie Review: Loving →
