The “Jay Sherman Test” applied to summer 2011 animated and comic book films
Besides the well-known Bechdel Test, another possible set of rules for movie-viewing, though way more lenient than the Bechdel Test, might be the ones that …
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“Peabody and Sherman” movie coming in 2014
DreamWorks, the animation studio that’s home of the “Shrek” movies, has announced its schedule of movie releases for the next several years. Of particular interest …
DVD review: Turtles Forever
This weekend, I watched the direct-to-DVD movie, “Turtles Forever,” an animated film starring 80s independent comics-turned-TV-sensations, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or in the UK, …
Movie viewing “rules”: the Bechdel Test and Jay Sherman’s rules (2010 edition)
Often brought up online is the “Bechdel Test.” Named after the cartoonist of LGBT comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel, it proposes …