Shout! Factory

SHOUT! FACTORY BLOG 5.18.15 I’m going to get vulnerable with you: I feel like I’m taking Mad Men’s inevitable end harder than everybody else. After each episode in the final season, I found myself staring into space, quietly singing “What’ll I do / with only dreams of you / that won’t come true / what’ll I…

SHOUT! FACTORY BLOG 7.10.15 Before Orange is the New Black (whose latest season premieres on Netflix today), media dealing with women in prison (WIP) often had a bad reputation. ‘70s and early ‘80s WIP exploitation films like Chained Heat (Paul Nicolas, 1983) were critically panned and described by many as sleazy, seedy, rape-y, off-putting and dumb, although they have…

SHOUT! FACTORY BLOG 10.3.17 When I first saw Jodie Foster’s Home for the Holidays in 1996, I was in my early teens and didn’t like it. It was too chaotic, too jarringly filled with conflicting emotions, too noisy. Now, twenty-one years later, I love the movie, and have a new way to describe it: it’s too real.  …