It shouldn't be any harder to write strong (as in, fully-wrought and believable) female characters than it is to write strong male characters because women, just like men, are people (not that not being a person has ever prevented a character from existing in the first place). Still, the very idea that a popular male…
Psychologist Christopher Ferguson has done the empirical research, put in the legwork and figured out that Buffy is awesome, which I absolutely could have told you. More specifically, his piece in the Journal of Communication chronicles the results of 150 Texas A&M students' screenings of three disparate types of…
Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte have listed their favorite episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, whom they call "one of the most powerful female characters ever developed." Included are Season 2's "Passion," and "Becoming" (the one where she kills Angel), Season 3's "Consequences" and "Prom," Season 4's silent episode "Hush,"…
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Halloween: The time of year when all your favorite TV characters don crazy costumes and become involved in totally nonsensical plots, just for the sake of a holiday-themed episode. I love bad television just as much as I love good — and as such here's a collection of the best/worst Halloween episodes the idiot box has…
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Action heroines are rare creatures. The earliest were female versions of pre-existing male heros, like Wonder Woman, BatGirl and SuperGirl. Some more recent heroines have their roots in fantasy or sci-fi, like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Selene from Underworld, or Alice from Resident Evil. But while there are plenty of …
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Marti Noxon was a producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and now she's coming back to superpowered teenagers with the movie I Am Number Four, coming next month. She talked to us about aliens, super-violence, and dealing with internet haters.
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Yesterday, it was announced that a new Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie is in the works. Good news! Oh, wait: Bad news. Buffy creator Joss Whedon is not involved.
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[Los Angeles, August 25. Image via Flynet.]
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[Malibu, June 8. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
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Today's New York Times has a "Thursday Styles" section story about a "trend with teeth": Vampires.
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So remember yesterday when I warned Edward Cullen about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer? Turns out I was a little late—their epic battle has already taken place, and it is quite a sight to see.
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OMG. Scoobies, Spuffy, Hellmouth, how I have missed thee. [TV Overmind]
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People are excited about Toy Story 3. And Up made good money over the weekend. But NPR's Linda Holmes pleads to Pixar: "Please make a movie about a girl who is not a princess."
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Movie nerdfest website Cinematic Happenings Under Development (CHUD) has a review up of Diablo Cody's latest script, the homicidal cheerleader horror flick Jennifer's Body. The verdict? "It may not work all the way as satire, but it's briskly paced and very, very funny. I mean, any movie with an Orca reference can't be…
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