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Archive for Category: "Film & TV"

Best of GAB Film Reviews: Part I

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Best of GAB Film Reviews: Part I

Today and tomorrow we’re going to highlight some of our best/most popular film reviews on Gender Across Borders (to read more about our “Best of Series,” click here). Enjoy!

We’ll start off with the film review by Elena Rossini called ”Bodies, Inc.”

Four years ago I had a eureka moment that ended up determining the trajectory of my life and career. I’m mildly embarrassed about sharing it, because it’s something that may be obvious to most. It just took me some 27 years to finally “get it.”

At the time newspapers, magazines, TV newscasts, and a myriad of websites obsessively documented the turbulent lives of a small set of “starlets,” singers and actresses. The protagonists were invariably the same: Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Britney Spears. All beautiful, wealthy…

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