Pro-Singlehood Movie Reviews 

Ever since I was a kid, I loved movies.  When I turned fourteen, I started watching Siskel & Ebert and fell in love with reading movie reviews.  I wrote them for my junior high school newspaper and devoured reviews from books like Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, and Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever.  When I took a video production course in high school, my dream was to become the next Steven Spielberg.  After having watched The Fabelmans, I learned I didn't quite have Spielberg's talent or drive, but by then, I was already established as an English professor and Singles Studies scholar/writer.  But my love for movies and reading movie reviews has stood tall.  In a recent Medium article, I proposed a Bechdel-like test that measures how singles are portrayed in films, and whether the movie takes a pro- or anti-singlehood stance, or somewhere in between.  Each week, I'll post a review of a movie.
The Heartbreak Kid
The Couch Trip
​Just Mercy
Mississippi Burning
​Luckiest Girl Alive
​Escape at Dannemora
​Radio Flyer
​The Craft
​Of Mice and Men 
She-Devil
​Swing Vote
My Brilliant Career
Life
The Wife
​Drugstore Cowboy
​Here Today 
Heathers
Together Together 
​Muriel's Wedding
​St. Elmo's Fire
​Spinster
​Pineapple Express
​The Shawshank Redemption
​Unfaithful
The Pursuit of Happyness
​Birdy
​Firstborn
​Dogma
​Fear
Saturday Night Fever
​The Gift
​He Got Game
Freedom Writers
​American Beauty
A Few Good Men
The Blues Brothers
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training 
The Longest Yard
Beverly Hills Cop
I Love You, Man
Casino
​Cool Runnings 
NYAD
The Sister Act Franchise
Remember the Titans
​The Holdovers
​How to be Single
The Fortune Cookie
Whip It
​Repo Man
Days of Wine and Roses
The Sound of Metal
​Crossroads
​The Squid and the Whale
​School of Rock
​Midsommar
Unpregnant
​No One Would Tell
​Rudy
Hard Lessons
Girls Trip
​The Bad News Bears
Wildcats
​Private Benjamin
Getting Out
​Clean and Sober
28 Days
​Butter
Blue Streak
Vision Quest
Hard Promises
My Bodyguard




​

​