by Eden
What is Christmas without some teen angst? It’s weird for me to think that these episodes only aired about six years apart (“So-Called Angels” on December 22, 1994, and “Forgiveness and Stuff on December 21, 2000) because in my head, they’re from two different eras of television.
Tokyo Godfathers is a reimagining of The Three Godfathers It follows three homeless people — Hana, a transgender woman; teen runaway Miyuki, and the middle-aged alcoholic Gin — who form a vague family. They happen to find a baby they name Kiyoko. They spend the rest of Christmas Eve trying to reunite Kiyoko with her mother and in the process, they reconnect with their pasts
The glamourous Elaine has decided the best way to go about it is to shape herself into “just a pretty woman to love” – in other words, the perfect male fantasy. Her preoccupation has little to do with what she wants and rather what she believes men want. So of course, Elaine turns to witchcraft to accomplish this. And of course, it does not go at all according to her plan. There will be more bad ends to follow.
To be quite honest about it, Tara Subkoff’s #Horror is a mess. I love that it’s a movie dominated by women, from the director, most of the creative team and the vast majority of the cast, but it’s mostly atmosphere hung around the thinnest of plots (which, upon reflection, doesn’t make too much sense) and characters who are barely there. But there’s something compelling about Subkoff’s vision and take on this material that transforms it into something beautiful and frantic.
John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps is not the first to make the connection between menstruation and lycanthropy (and I doubt it will be the last), but along with screenwriter Karen Lee Hall, it offers a darkly funny, scary and touching metaphor for the changes girls face during adolescence.