Flight: Robert Zemeckis takes a nosedive
Denzel Washington is an utterly brilliant actor. Director Robert Zemeckis choice of scripts on “Flight,” however, leaves much to be desired, says B.R. Merrick.
Do women need men need women?
B.R. Merrick walks us across the bridge that spans the gulf between men and women, noticing the cracks and conflict stressed supports along the way. And he shows us weak portions, stressed by the weight of unrealistic expectation.
We need to talk about Peter
How often does the critic suffer the sometimes heartless and savage nature of critique? Not often enough, for sure. It is a wrong seldom corrected, which makes us love Merrick all the more.
The Iron (sulfide) Lady
The formula for Hollywood success is easy. Find really evil women, and tell their story in a way that makes them heroic. It sometimes works the reverse in politics.
Bury the bullshit
Voting rights, or lack of them, are the quintessential piece of prima facie evidence of women’s oppression in the west. Feminists jingle them like a bloody set of chains. For B.R. Merrick, the sound has become empty and annoying.
More on the anti-man mentality
It is amazing what you can learn from history when you actually make it a point to study it. Just as it is amazing what you can do to distort it with ideology and political groupthink. B.R. Merrick weighs in on history and oppression.
In defense of an indefensible pastime
Is art a video game imitating life? Do you put your bitch on a collar and/or smack her around? How about a stun gun to teach her a few manners, and her place in life. B.R. Merrick takes this game to the next level.
The relationship with yourself is no Game
Somehow, some way, B.R. Merrick has taken an issue we have recently beaten into the ground and breathed into it, new life, and we think, new meaning.
Power Lines
“I am witness to what will happen with the end of men, and it ain’t pretty. If men end, so does the civilization upon which I have come to rely, and of which I have grown quite fond.” So says AVfM contributor B.R. Merrick.
How to be anti-war AND anti-man
If I was a woman, I’d feel unsafe around male colleagues if the contention that I had a 1 in 3 chance of being raped was true. It isn’t, and it is apparently being repeated ad infinitum et nauseam around the Internet.
