On Thursday, November 9th, Gmg Group CEO Jim Spanfeller announced that he was shutting down the women-centric website Jezebel, after failing to find a buyer. After 16 years, six editors-in-chief, four presidential administrations, tens of thousands of posts, hundreds of internet shitstorms, and at least one gallery of digital illustrations of the penises of Walt Disney princes, one of the internet’s last remaining stalwarts of Web Feminism was to fall silent.
Jezebel gave me my first shot at being a writer, and so its demise feels especially unmooring, like learning...
Jezebel gave me my first shot at being a writer, and so its demise feels especially unmooring, like learning...
- 11/11/2023
- by Erin Gloria Ryan
- Rollingstone.com
Judging by The Last Duel, 14th-century France was as gray and miserable as you’d expect. And yes, this is a long, talky, literary, extremely dour film, basically a guaranteed box-office bomb that, if anything, feels more akin to current prestige television. It’s possibly the gloomiest film Sir Ridley Scott has ever directed (which is saying something) and, if paired with that prissy craftsman’s rather tough and cynical The Counselor from 2013, shows a stark late-period worldview might even be forming, though that’ll probably be discounted by a number of subsequent for-hire jobs.
If anything, The Last Duel is a deeply respectable, not particularly enjoyable film. “Respectable” not simply in terms of the copious production values and prestige players onscreen, but in its very serious, earnest intentions. Case in point: Matt Damon looking like James Hetfield and wrapping chainmail around his fist to bash in a rival warrior...
If anything, The Last Duel is a deeply respectable, not particularly enjoyable film. “Respectable” not simply in terms of the copious production values and prestige players onscreen, but in its very serious, earnest intentions. Case in point: Matt Damon looking like James Hetfield and wrapping chainmail around his fist to bash in a rival warrior...
- 10/12/2021
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
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