Nicole Kidman

Ziegler’s party has been interpreted by some as the star of Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sexuality and their perilous manifestations – a dominant theme which engulfs the lives of Alice (Nicole Kidman) and Bill Harford (Tom Cruise). The egoistic wound nursed by Bill is inflicted by his wife’s confession of an act of almost indiscretion, propelling him to exact revenge through a series of fantastical sexual…

I woke up this morning to the sound of my phone going off. I checked the snapchat that had caused this and told that person that their outfit was absolutely adorable. After I got ready for the day, I walked downstairs to talk to my mom. “You look nice today,” is the first thing she says. I mumbled a response that is barely heard. My day is basically the blur of school that I have gone through for years. I hear students in the halls telling others that the look nice or they like what someone did…

This media analysis will define the gynosocial truth about female relationships in the TV show, “Big Little Lies” (2017). The friendship of Madeline Martha Mackenzie (Reese Witherspoon), Celeste Wright (Nicole Kidman), Bonnie Carlson (Zoe Kravitz) and Jane Chapman (Shailene Chapman) define the mutual bonding between women under the threat of misogynistic males. The end of the TV show promotes the interconnected loyalties of women that have been abused by men, since they unite to protect Bonnie…

Junot Diaz said that dismissing any opportunity for a person to be culturally represented turns them into a “monster” (goodreads.com). So, how does that apply to the media, specifically, Hollywood film? Recently there has been a growing outcry over the lack of complex minority experiences in award-winning films. As a result, more Black actors and actresses have been nominated in their respective categories. However, the same cannot be said for South Asians and Hispanics, who struggle to find…

Have you ever wondered what your personality traits say about you? I have, so I took a personality test online from 16personalities.com and this test told me that I am an INFJ. The “I” stands for introverted, the NF stands for an inborn sense of idealism and morality, but what sets me apart is my accompanying judging (J) trait. My personality type in known as “The Advocate.” My personality type is rare. It makes up less than one percent of the population, nonetheless leaves a mark on the world.…

Barry Humphries, better known to some by the names of his alter-egos Sir Les Patterson, Dame Edna Everage, and Sandy Stone, among others, has been called “the greatest comic genius of our age”, and even “the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin” (Ann Pender). Others might call him a crude abomination____. Either way, nearly everyone who has heard of Barry Humphries has something to say about him. Australians, “Poms”, and Americans alike are enraged and captivated by his…

Everyday women are judged for how they look, act, or say. No matter where a woman goes she must always worry about someone looking at her as nothing more than an object of pleasure. Because of this some women try to escape this reality by watching movies, but cinema itself is judging women. We live in such a male gaze driven society that women are now body shaming themselves because of how self-conscious they have become because they always believe they are being judged on their appearance.…

Musicals Let’s change gears here into something a little different, and a lot of fun! Musicals. Who doesn’t like a good musical? And before you roll your eyes and think we’re only going to talk about Disney, there’s a lot more to musicals then animated characters singing to woodland creatures. Musicals have been around since the dawn of theatre - and like many of our genres, started on the stage. But what actually makes a musical? In this genre, we define a musical as a film where the songs are…

The movie, The Stepford Wives comprises of definite points of interest including the liberation of men and women, equality between men and women, and lastly, feminism. The movie conveyed these significant ideas, for people to be aware of their society’s rotting core. 1960’s and 1970’s was a period when women campaigned for the development of their own rights.Some women pushed their opportunity to extreme that resulted into women’s dominance over men. Perhaps, this movie was produced to be an…

Throughout The Golden Compass, the topic of fantasy is explored and applied to the storyline directly. From talking polar bears to bizarre personal companions, this novel certainly emphasizes the imaginative aspect of literature. The Golden Compass, written by Philip Pullman, is one of three books in the series titled His Dark Materials which exemplifies the nature of the fantasy genre by detailing completely absurd and surreal events (Pullman 2-198). In The Golden Compass, the protagonist,…