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Films which have passed both the Bechdel and Mako Mori Tests
This is an ongoing list of films which I’ve found to have passed both Bechdel and Mako Mori tests. I’m interested in seeing what films can pass a higher threshold like the combination of both tests. I’ll add more later.
2015
- Mad Max: Fury Road (as stated here)
2014
- Daawat–e–Ishq
2013
2012 (as stated here)
- The Hunger Games
- Brave
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Snow White and the Huntsman
- Prometheus
- Zero Dark Thirty
- This is 40
- Pitch Perfect
- Mirror Mirror
- Underworld: Awakening
- Titanic (Imax 3D)
- The Devil Inside
- The Possession
- Beauty and the Beast 3D
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Resident Evil: Retribution
- Cabin in the Woods
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting
- Rock of Ages
- Step Up: Revolution
- Joyful Noise
- The Dark Knight Rises
2009
- Exam
2008
- I Can’t Think Straight
2004
- Alien vs. Predator
That “All Lives Matter” protest
That “All Lives Matter” protest was led by *drum roll please* Glenn Beck and Chuck Norris. Auntie Alveda King tagged along.
I also noticed the pictures of Frederick Douglass. None of these individuals have the fortitude to read his 4th of July speech without putting revision to it, I’m pretty sure. But why only pictures of Douglass and Lincoln? Could someone have had a Malcolm X picture somewhere? Does he leave a sour taste in some mouths when he damned the fundamentals of this system? “Justice” “Courage” What about “Reparations”? What about “Human Rights”? And does their “Justice” come at the barrel of a police’s firearm?
This is very Christian. An assertion that everyone can only come together if they only complied to this “(Judeo-)Christian” framework of society. Not even race, #BlackLivesMatter. Not even class, #Sanders2016.
Religion, or should I say “FAITH” as the religious tribalists who run most local governments would assert and unconstitutionally mollify. And of course, the proceeds of this march didn’t go to any communities affected by police excess or to community institutions, but the current real-life cause celebre of the Christian victims of ISIS’ genocide in Syria and Iraq. Not the Yazidi victims, not the Shia victims, not the moderate Sunni victims, not the Kurdish victims, JUST SPECIFICALLY the Christian victims. Not even, arguably, the Christian minority affected by displacement from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, who rank low in the hierarchy of Middle Eastern “save the Christians” needs. Just those a cozy distance away from the “rapture practice” zone of Israel/Palestine.
Everything about this march says a lot more about the inconsistencies of reactionary Christian U.S. politics toward ethnicity, foreign affairs, undermined populations, and their own comfort zones.
This is a funny march. Obtuse as shit, but funny. The fact that Glenn Beck organized it is just eyeroll-worthy. It doesn’t show the love that “All Lives Matter” asserts to high heaven.
Paranoia Agent: Strongest
Misae Ikari, the wife of Detective Keiichi Ikari, delivers the most powerful speech of the entire series of the anime series Paranoia Agent, and somewhat foreshadowed the series creator’s own unsuccessful fight with cancer. There are few character speeches or monologues in #anime which I would recommend for reading and inspiration, but Misae’s monologue is a beautiful testament to the gift of life.
Management: While my opinion of the show is generally positive overall, this essay, by no means, is meant to serve as a comprehensive review, but rather, as an articulation and analysis of some of what I feel is this series’ most integral and interesting themes. This essay, in particular, is about Episode 11 of Paranoia Agent, “No Entry,” though it does contain some elements of Episode 13, “The Final Episode,” towards the end.
“Paranoia” is a term that could be described as seeing daggers in shadows where there are none. It’s a mental state where minor suspicion of the intentions of people and things, whether or not those people actually know who you are and whether or not those things are actually sentient, degrades to the point to a neurotic obsession. It becomes a plot against your life, a conspiracy where certain people, certain things, or all people and all things, are out to get…
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Finding Lil’ B
August 26, 11:28 pm: “I’ve never listened to anything by Lil’ B as of yet. I don’t know why he’s famous or why people call themselves Based God. I’m about to start listening now.”
August 27, 12:08pm: I’m feeling this track, “The Age of Information”. Interesting cutback to techno-utopianism.
GALLERY: SpeakOut: Race and Confederate Symbols
Police suck w/ guns. Civilians suck w/ guns. We’re really militarized against each other.
I feel like I’ve been spending a bit of my life catching up on what I missed in the 1990s and 2000s.
A Perfect Day at the Afropunk Festival
#AFROPUNK #creativity
We all have our version of what constitutes a perfect day. That image can change given where we are in our life at any given time. Since I’m committed to logging at least 10,000 steps daily, a perfect day for me is sharing an active outdoor adventure somewhere visually interesting with people I love. With that as the criteria, Saturday was a perfect day. I went to the Afropunk Festival in Brooklyn with my friends Ruth LaFerla and Deb Mitchell.
Related Post: Me and my Fitbit
It came about by accident. Ruth and I had gone to the movies on Friday night. She told me she was going to the festival the next day for a story she was going to write for the New Yorks Times style section where she has worked for the last 15 years. When she heard me gasp, she asked if I wanted to come…
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Grace Jones – “Slave to the Rhythm” LIVE at AFROPUNK NYC
This happened last night at #AFROPUNK NYC 2015. Yes, #GraceJones was topless.
