DVDanger: Bound to Vengeance

Female protagonists tested in home invasion and revenge flicks

"...we should be well past the era of the damsel in distress, but the genre seems to fall back..."

Nov. 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Robber Bridegroom

With its fairy-tale trappings and bluegrass score, this is the chicken and waffles of musicals

"...would a fairy tale be if not for a damsel in distress, an evil witch, and a heroic prince?..."

April 24, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

The Human Condition

Ex Machina writer/director Alex Garland on robots, sex, and the collaborative spirit

"...About that damsel in distress. It could be said that Ex Machina..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Food-o-File

The icing on the cake

"...turreted castle cake, complete with a mythical beast, a damsel in distress, and a conquering hero...."

Feb. 20, 2015 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The Boy Next Door

Jennifer Lopez stars in this brazenly dumb MILF thriller.

"...While Lopez carries off the overdone damsel-in-distress schtick somewhat credibly, Guzman fails to step up to..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

I Wear the Black Hat

Klosterman's critique of villainy over the last 40 years offers some surprisingly sharp analyses

"...melodramatic cliche of the black-hatted, mustachioed villain, tying a damsel in distress to railroad tracks, tracing it from a..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

'La Femme Bohème'

Puccini's Bohemians get an all-gal makeover

"...take women's roles in opera beyond the traditional ingenue, damsel in distress, femme fatale. Bohème "felt like the natural..."

June 20, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rock & Roll Weekend

Accordions, thunderstruck dins, and no bodily fluids

"...On Saturday night, A Giant Dog damsel Sabrina Ellis dropped by my house so that we..."

May 20, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Top 10 National

"...6) Chelle Rose, Ghost of Browder Holler (Lil' Damsel)..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Dead Can Dance

Live Shot

"...detail "Children of the Sun" with the backing band's damsel-esque keyboardist rather than his business partner. When Gerrard then..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The AggreGAYtor: August 14

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...• Distressing damsel Bristol Palin has the vapors over media coverage of..."

Aug. 14, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Chelle Rose

"...Chelle RoseGhost of Browder Holler (Lil' Damsel)..."

July 20, 2012 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Damsels in Distress

Greta Gerwig stars in Whit Stillman's new film that's full of awkward artifice and – dance.

"...That’s a very good thing in the case of Damsels in Distress, because this new movie lands way off..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years

April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to

"...in their next films. After satirizing D. W. Griffith's damsel-in-distress plots in "Help! Help!" (April 11, 1912), they play..."

March 23, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

FF2011: Sharni Vinson Says 'You're Next'

From Australian soaps to home invasion horror

"...Vinson's genre-busting turn as Erin, the antithesis of the damsel in distress...."

Sept. 25, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Week's Waste of Time

A free game with romance and action without all the pesky facial features

"...of your wife or perhaps sister, it's unclear. A ghost-damsel needs your help; I'll leave it at that. Run,..."

Sept. 10, 2009 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Enchanted

Romance, dry satire, and musical comedy blend in this new Disney film, which stars a delightful Amy Adams.

"...divorce attorney and single father. While Robert helps our damsel in distress, she remains convinced that Prince Edward will..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

SXSW Film

Daily Reviews and Interviews

"...to one day come to the aid of a damsel in distress. He also suffers from severe temper tantrums..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Diana Welch

Vaudeville Vanya

St. Idiot Collective's 'Vaudeville Vanya' ambitiously seeks to explode a great old play with a great old medium, but it ends up a sheen of vaudeville brushed over a hellbent staging of Uncle Vanya

"...box and thumb wrestle; Elizabeth Wakehouse becomes a dog-show damsel; Jason Newman rants; and Adriene Mishler performs a dream..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

TV Eye

Testosterone on tap

"...veers schizophrenically from a driven wonder woman to a damsel in search of her knight in shining armor. It's..."

March 31, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Reciprocal Demand

Ladies, what has the gaming business done for you, lately?

"...the angles offered to women have been limited: a damsel in distress; a hyper-feminized heroine; or a side character..."

March 3, 2006 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Confessions of a Romance Virgin

Harlequin heats up a new market with its kickass Bombshell heroines

"...in that very traditional model of ... woman as damsel in distress. And I wasn't a damsel in distress,"..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Books Feature by Nora Ankrum

TV Eye

Just say no to free speech.

"...portrait as a one-woman fighting machine to a quivering damsel in distress. The film cautiously flirted with why the..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Films in Complicated Women -- TCM's new festival of precode pictures -- feature many legendary actresses in film history: Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and others.

"...women dream of a wedding where they can play damsel for a day, awaiting their Prince Charming to claim..."

April 25, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Truth About Charlie

"...Demme's tweaks in the plot are interesting: There's less damsel-in-distress, more proactive sleuthing from Regina, and much of the..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dancing About Architecture

As the Live Music Capital dries up, along comes the Austin City Limits festival to quench parched musical thirst.

"...the world's biggest karaoke competition. Now that the Dallas-area damsel has been propelled into the same league with Kenny..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Professionals

"...Palance is a really bad guy - what's a damsel in distress to do?..."

July 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Enough

"...it's such a kick when Slim trades in her damsel-in-distress routine for some serious ass-kicking. She goes into intensive..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

'The Territory' Schedule

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...Rhein, California, 9 min., 30 sec.: This clever, comic shaggy-damsel account of the vagaries of dating underscores the women..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Screens Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...have three such stalwart "Knights in Shining Armor." Every damsel in distress should have you on her side. I..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column

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