yeah, it’s strange and perhaps not very romantic for a 100-year-old woman to live her whole life in service of a man she knew for three days.

I only know it was ‘98 because I have the big “Coming Soon” poster hanging in my room. I’ve been disappointed that Disney hasn’t done a bunch of stuff for the 20th anniversary. 

And she ends up happily paired with a guy who loves her for who she is as well!

Ever After is perfection! I still watch it now and then. Its gender politics absolutely hold up 20 years later. Beyond that, it’s just a great film. Smart, funny, sweet. The story is layered and colorful. All the characters are interesting.

Not only that, but she literally saves his life at one point during the movie.

I loved Ever After so much, and now that I realize how feminist it is, it makes sense. One of my favorite movies of my childhood was The First Wives Club. I was meant to be a feminist. 

They say that every generation gets the Coyote Ugly it deserves, so it’s not surprising this one is made by an indie nerd.

Yay for Bujalski, and Bujalski coverage. I really liked Funny Ha Ha a lot (Mutual Admiration, Beeswax, and Computer Chess I also liked though not as much). I never would have expected him to direct a Hooters comedy (or as his imdb says be a writer on the new Lady and The Tramp). But good for him. If he can as you say…

I love the family dynamic in “Ever After” as well. My mom, being a Korean immigrant in North America, always struggled while watching American movies due to the language barrier. But I distinctly remember she liked “Ever After” because she grew up with an evil step-mom, the four main characters are women and it’s…

I’m spending eternity with this hobo I fucked on a cruise.

I was only a kid when it came out but I never thought Titanic was anti-feminist. I thought Rose always thought of Jack because he was something of an equal to her and she wasn’t lucky enough to find that either before meeting him or afterwards.

Here’s a funny review from CNN at the time that deals with that very aspect of the movie: “Some of the pauses are so pregnant you could bring a bull elephant to term before the actor responds to a direct question.”

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a great movie.

Ever After is one of my favorite sick day/comfort movies for this very reason.  Sure, the accents are bizarre and inconsistent, but I love these sorts of fairy tale retellings, where it’s entirely recognizable as the original story, but reimagined in a way that’s smart and gives the woman some agency.  

I was 17 in 1998 and my bestie and I saw Ever After in the theater more times than I can remember. It was perfect, escapist but empowering.

Mamele, out in 1938 and adapted from a longstanding stage standard (the changes are quite obvious, as they’re random insertions of even more shit for Molly Picon to do on camera) is a retelling of the Cinderella story in which she’s bound to her family by a sense of responsibility to it (she does all the work of…

I particularly liked that only one of the step sisters was awful. It takes her a while, but over the course of the movie the brunette one does eventually learn to stand up for Danielle (and herself).

I laugh at people who think the world began in the 1970s (or ‘80s or ‘90s or whatever era they were children in).

I point to 1938's ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ in which Maid Marian does not have to kick butt because she’s the smartest person in the kingdom. Hell, much as I HATE ‘Gone With the Wind’, you can’t deny…

By and large I loathe Cinderella, or as least the Disney version that has popularised the original story and turned it into an aspirational tale that preaches the following messages: ‘the most important goal in life for a woman is to marry well (preferably to a Prince, literal or figurative)‘ and ‘physical beauty is a …