Fun with Movies: Our Man Flint
I love my Roku. It’s a small black box that lets you pipe Netflix on demand to your TV. I like to watch silly action movies while I work on the program for www.howtomakeloveto.com and I just finished watching Our Man Flint, a parody of Bond starring James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb and Gila Golan. [...]
Fun with Art: Oscar Edition
I recently went on a tear of seeing movies and I’m going to do a quick roundup of partial reviews of the films I’ve seen: But as an homage to my favorite feminist author, Elizabeth Grosz, I’m only going to talk about the parts of each film that I liked. Grosz argues in the beginning [...]
Fun with Art: Two Lovers
In my last movie review, I applauded the writers (Lynn Barber and Nick Hornby) behind An Education for not rehashing the same old story of a woman getting Bovarized for pursuing an ill-advised romance. (Getting Bovarized is a term I’m doing my best to popularize. It means to gravely punish a fictional character for fulfilling [...]
Fun with Art: An Education
Any time I see a movie or read a story where a woman is enjoying sex or having a fun time in an ill-advised relationship, my mind reflexively jumps an hour / a hundred pages ahead in the plot… “I wonder what hideous misfortune the writer has planned for her?! Is she going to get [...]
Fun with Art: Precious
Usually, I reserve this column for my thoughts about paintings and sculptures that I run across in museums, but since it’s the very brief part of the year where good movies come out, I’m going to take a couple of columns to talk about movies I’ve seen. They say sex addicts can watch so much [...]
Fun with Art: Dueling Victorian Gang Bangs
In the bottom floor of the Musée D’Orsay, in Paris, hanging one room away from one another, are two very different paintings… of gang bangs. One is a realist painting by Henri Gervex called Before the Operation, 1887, subtibled Dr Péan Teaching His Discovery of the Compression of Blood Vessels at St Louis Hospital. Dr [...]
Fun with Art:Gay Jesus
I don’t take perverse pleasure in writing the phrase “Gay Jesus.” I really don’t. I object in general to outing people because it implies that being discovered as gay is legitimately some kind of “gotcha moment,” something to be ashamed for being caught at. (Although after seeing Outrage, a new doco from HBO, I’ll make [...]
Fun with Art: Penis Problems?
When I go to museums, I take pictures of art objects that represent or point to funny sexual hangups and then I talk about it here. I was recently at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, a museum where you can have the experience of paying more for parking than for your ticket. Fun. Great [...]
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