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 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
