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Bechdel Test Your Life

Johanna Evans
December 18 2011


I may have mentioned this in a previous blog, but you might hear film critics talk about whether the latest movie passed the "Bechdel Test." A film passes the test if it 1) includes at least two female characters who have names, and 2) If those women talk about something other than men. 

Sometimes I find myself at Starbucks with my girlfriends, looking at our conversation from a third person point of...

 
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Two Great Films by Women

Johanna Evans
May 30 2011


It's summer! And if you're like me, when it hits ninety degrees I start thinking of ways places to go with air conditioning. Going to the movies has gotten really expensive, so usually it takes a lot of convincing for me to indulge myself, but lately my tie-breaker has been whether or not women were involved in the project. There was a great deal of applause for Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar win...