POP FILTER EDITORIAL

By Mike Gravagno | December 5, 2013

POP FILTER EDITORIAL In which we step from behind the curtain to spout opinions.   Holding Out For A Hero* “Folks talk about morality like it’s black and white. Or maybe they think they’re smart and when they’re at a cocktail party acting pretentious they say it’s grey. But you know what it really is? A…

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Am I Right Ladies? The Manic Pixie Dream Girls Must Be Stopped

By Robin Hardwick | May 28, 2012

In a 2005 review of the dreadful Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”, and hence, there was a beautiful succint term to describe so many cliches. Rabin describes the MPDG as existing “solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its…

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Loveable Sociopaths

By Robin Hardwick | April 16, 2012

This week was the premier of 2 Broke Girls/Happy Ending hybrid with a title too racy to spell out, Don’t Trust the B— in Apt 23. Starring the fresh-faced Dreama Walker (Dreama? Really?) and the gorgeous, talented and luminous Krysten Ritter.  Whereas I think this was supposed to be a dark comedy, let’s face it,…

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