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 Bad News Bears
Wildcats
​Private Benjamin
Getting Out
​Clean and Sober
28 Days
​Butter
Blue Streak
Vision Quest
Hard Promises
My Bodyguard




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