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Emma Frost

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See Historical Ladies In Armor In The White Queen Trailer

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:21 pm, May 3rd, 2013

Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, and Anne Neville are the focus of the BBC’s The White Queen. The series is based on Philippa Gregory’s best selling historical novel series The Cousins’ War, and follows the women’s perspective during the Wars of the Roses. Coincidentally enough, The White Queen was written by a woman named Emma Frost. The 10-episodes series will air this summer on BBC One and in August on Starz in the U.S.

(via Deadline)

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The BBC Is Telling the Story of the War of the Roses From the Women’s Perspective, and It Looks Amazing

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:00 pm, November 21st, 2012

 

The recently released promo pics from the upcoming BBC drama The White Queen, which tells the story of the War of the Roses from the perspective of the females involved, have really, really made me want to watch the show. Granted, it was announced a few months ago and I’m only hearing about it now, so my excitement comes less from a sense of “Hey, these are cool promo stills” than “OMG, a British history epic from a female perspective! Give it!”

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Excelsior!

Reebok and Marvel are Making Sneaks for Geeks (And They Haven’t Forgotten the Ladies)

by Susana Polo | 10:26 am, June 5th, 2012

Converse’s arrangement with DC and the unisex styling of their shoes has been a boon to geeky chicks looking for kicks everywhere. But if you’re more of a Marvel girl, pickings have been slim. And while I wouldn’t call two characters a feast, it’s two more than there used to be, so it’s pretty cool that when putting together its new line of Marvel superhero inspired sneakers, Reebok didn’t forget the ladies.

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Things We Saw Today: The First Glimpse of Small Fry

by Jamie Frevele | 4:58 pm, November 11th, 2011

Above is a still from the new Toy Story short, Small Fry, which will be shown before The Muppets when it opens later this month. Why is Buzz Lightyear so small? Because he’s not the real Buzz Lightyear — he is the McDonald’s Happy Meal toy version of Buzz Lightyear (voiced by animator and director Teddy Newton). (via Bleeding Cool)

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Bloody Good Fun

Science Fiction/Fantasy Characters As Vampires

by Jamie Frevele | 2:28 pm, October 2nd, 2011

It’s October, and that means a couple of things: 1. pumpkin everything and 2. vampire mashups. Since we are but a web site, we cannot provide the goodness of pumpkin to you this afternoon, but we can show you some excellent sci-fi/fantasy characters re-imagined as vampires, courtesy of Blastr.

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Mutatis Mutandis

The Gender Politics of X-Men: First Class

by Susana Polo | 12:01 pm, May 31st, 2011

I think there’s definitely an element of 60s sexism, which is supposed to be not-a-good-thing, running through the movie, though unfortunately sometimes, when a film is edited you end up with a thread seeming that you’re not following all elements of all threads. There was much more of story about Moira being oppressed.

I think what was originally there is that Moira [MacTaggert, Professor X's love interest] was a woman, so in the minority in the CIA, and in that sense was an outcast in her own way, just as all the mutants are. She was a victim of prejudice. That story line was supposed to reflect what was echoing and reverberating throughout the film, including with Raven [Mystique]. – Jane Goldman, co-writer of X-Men: First Class, on X-Men: First Class.

I’ll admit that I don’t know enough about X-Men canon to judge for myself whether Emma Frost is a strong enough character to make up for the so in-your-face as to be farcical odor of fan-service that her costume exudes, and the sheer amount of physics defying boobage that artists have created because of her over the years (case in point). But it’s nice to see someone acknowledging and thinking about presenting the historical place of women in a period film and the struggle of the female characters against it, especially in a genre movie where it would probably go largely un-missed if overlooked.

(via Bleeding Cool.)

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