HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – ChickFlicking – Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby is) Review (Nadia Sandhu)

HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby is) Directed by James Franco and Ian Olds James Franco.  General Hospital.  James Franco. Three reasons that experimental doc Francophrenia (Or Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) requires closer examination on ChickFlicking (Full disclosure – I have inContinue reading “HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – ChickFlicking – Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby is) Review (Nadia Sandhu)”

ChickFlicking – Damsels in Distress – A Flick for Chicks? (Nadia Sandhu)

Damsels in Distress (2011) Starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, and Analeigh Tipton Directed by Whit Stillman Damsels in Distress is not necessarily what I would consider a chick flick, but it is a film that is presumably meant for a female audience, so here goes. Writer/Director Whit Stillman hasn’t made a movie since the lateContinue reading “ChickFlicking – Damsels in Distress – A Flick for Chicks? (Nadia Sandhu)”

ChickFlicking – Titanic 3D Review (Nadia Sandhu)

I saw Titanic more than once on the first go round in 1997- the third time was even on a date!  It was pure disaster porn and my takeaway point was apparently that when faced with death by propeller, or plunging into the cold blue sea, I would take the pessimistic approach and go theContinue reading “ChickFlicking – Titanic 3D Review (Nadia Sandhu)”

ChickFlicking on Entertainment Maven with Nadia Sandhu

I was never one for “chick flicks”, unless you count my teenage obsession with Gone With the Wind.  When my best friend was sobbing, I was laughing at the end of The Notebook. Now that I’m on the other side of thirty and a confirmed singleton, I’ve noticed some strangely mushy stirrings.  It all cameContinue reading “ChickFlicking on Entertainment Maven with Nadia Sandhu”