AGORA
: Dragged from her chariot by a mob of fanatical vigilante Christian monks, the revered astronomer was stripped naked, skinned to her bones with sharp oyster shells, stoned and burned alive as possibly the first executed witch in history. A kind of purge that was apparently big business back then.


CRITICAL WOMEN HEADLINES

5/3/11

HE SAID, SHE SAID....BRIDESMAIDS


HE SAID....

By Gerald Wright
Film Showcase

...Bridesmaids, doesn't hold back on pushing boundaries for its female stars. Yet, I found myself feeling very uneasy with the jokes even if those same jokes were delivered by men. However perky, upbeat, modern, and post-feminist in tone, these petite women pack a big punch. My main problem in this film is that it is mindless in some of its tasteless humor. It comes off as sappy, and overly-commercialized with silly-fluff...

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SHE SAID...

By Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

...Let's try to give "chick flick" the boot; from now on, I won't use it if you won't. And let no one apply it to Bridesmaids, a film of great hilarity, humanity, idiosyncrasy and grade-A, eyebrow-singeing raunch. There's a conversation about guns and bottoms that I cannot repeat but will stay with me, I'm sure of it, for a very long time...

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