Critic's Notes There's a 'Sucker' debate born every minute TV, movies muddle exploitation and empowerment By Brian Lowry, Variety - March 30th, 2011 Movies and television are not usually the best places to conduct a referendum on a particular group's status -- which doesn't stop people from trying. Lately, issues pertaining to feminism -- on the order of 'Is it exploitation, or female empowerment?' -- keep recycling through pop culture in one form or another. Frankly, one should be suspicious of attempts to filter such conversations through fantasy or science fiction.
Columbia University President, George Rupp (left), presents Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune, with the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Superheroes, elves and Hobbits are not ideal for making real-world analogies, which explains a lot about what you see roaming the halls at Comic-Con. Nevertheless, Zack Snyder's 'Sucker Punch' -- featuring lingerie-clad heroines in a fantasy setting -- has triggered robust debate, not merely about the movie's merits but whether this amounts to schoolgirl fetishism masquerading as entertainment. Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips was among the most scathing, calling the film a 'greasy collection of near-rape fantasies and violent revenge scenarios disguised as a female-empowerment fairy tale.' (It's worth noting that Snyder also idealized the male form in '300,' or as I like to call it, 'That movie that reminds me of what I see in the mirror every morning -- not.' ) By happenstance, around the time 'Sucker Punch' reviews began breaking, Warner Bros.
Nov 22, 2017 - What now for the Sonar DAW? On a monthly basis, and announced that a Mac version of the software was in development the following year. Cakewalk Announces Sonar For Mac Cakewalk today announced that Sonar – a digital audio workstation with its roots in DOS, nearly three decades ago – is making the jump to Mac OS X. And it’s going to be free. CodeWeavers has a technology called CrossOver that is basically a Windows-to-Mac translator, allowing native Windows applications to run on a Mac. Together, Cakewalk and CodeWeavers used CrossOver to enable a native Windows version of SONAR Home Studio to run on a Mac.
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