{"id":3728,"date":"2017-03-04T08:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2017-03-04T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T14:33:35","slug":"witches-of-eastwick-film-retro-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/03\/04\/witches-of-eastwick-film-retro-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Witches of Eastwick film retro-reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You know a film still has currency\u00a0when it sparks the headline, “The Devil is a F**kboy: Revisiting ‘The Witches of Eastwick,'”<\/a> with the subhead “Thirty years later, George Miller’s diabolical feminist parable feels relevant as hell. Gird your cherries.”<\/p>\n

Meg shields<\/strong> writes, “Miller is a man of many talents:\u00a0he wrote Babe<\/em>; directed its weird and wonderful sequel; helmed the academy award winning Happy Feet <\/em>franchise; and even served as producer and second unit director on the Sam Neil-starring sailboat thriller Dead Calm<\/em><\/a>. In 1983, in between Mad Max<\/em> sequels, Miller directed a segment for the Twilight Zone <\/em>movie, which saw a bug-eyed John Lithgow feverishly trying to shoot a gremlin off the wing of a commercial airliner. Enamoured by his experience with Amblin Entertainment, and with an adapted screenplay of a recent work by American literary treasure John Updike <\/strong>in his possession, Miller made the (admittedly rocky<\/a>) move to Hollywood. And so, we were blessed with The Witches of Eastwick.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Darryl is, categorically, a shit lord: oozing with faux feminist sympathy as greasy and insincere as his joke of a ponytail. He’s the kind of guy who takes gender studies courses just to hit on women; a sneezy alt-bro who uses disingenuous ‘wokeness’ as a buff for disarming sexual conquests.”<\/p>\n

“Eastwick’s is a hazy, effortless magic,” she concludes, “whose exposition takes a backseat to the joyous interplay and collective power of female friendship. To ask for extrapolation is to fundamentally misunderstand Miller’s focus: a very real examination of toxic masculinity and sexual power dynamics, couched, deliciously, within occult ambiguity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know a film still has currency\u00a0when it sparks the headline, “The Devil is a F**kboy: Revisiting ‘The Witches of Eastwick,’” with the subhead “Thirty years later, George Miller’s diabolical feminist parable feels relevant as hell. Gird your cherries.” Meg … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11],"tags":[61,60],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","category-reviews","tag-george-miller","tag-witches-of-eastwick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}