Consistent Panda Bear Shape

Friends, I have been very busy over the past year being fat characters, which has not left me much time to write about fat characters.  Which has been amazing for me, even if I could ideally kee...

https://pandabearshape.com/2018/04/27/link-take-the-cake-a-fat-feminist-watches-i-feel-pretty/

Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut doesn’t bring anything new to the cinematic table in terms of story or visual technique; what makes it exciting is her outstanding attention to detail.  Havi...

https://pandabearshape.com/2017/12/17/my-best-friend-lady-bird-2017-dir-greta-gerwig/

Admittedly, I haven’t been great about keeping up with the Monthly Roundup feature.  I like having an overview of the fat characters I’m exposed to as part of my regular moviegoing, but some...

https://pandabearshape.com/2017/05/14/three-2017-movies-with-awesome-fat-female-characters-and-one-from-2012-because-why-not/

Embarrassing confession time:  I have been picking away at this article for way too long.  Patrick had suggested Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL a while ago, and they are chock full of great disc...

https://pandabearshape.com/2017/04/05/gazing-at-males-magic-mike-2012-dir-stephen-soderbergh-magic-mike-xxl-2015-dir-gregory-jacobs-and-the-fat-female-audience/

“Thou sayest thou didst see the god clearly; what was he like?” “What his fancy chose; I was not there to order this.” –Euripides, The Bacchae Something I’ve always struggled with as ...

https://pandabearshape.com/2017/03/05/drawing-the-divine-depictions-of-fatness-and-race-in-moana-2016-dir-john-musker-ron-clements/

And in such a timely manner, too.  As I said in my previous posts, I’m super busy this month with some theater projects, but I hope to get back on track with CPBS in February.  (This would be...

https://pandabearshape.com/2017/01/16/2016-wrap-up/

If you don’t follow Your Fat Friend on Medium or Twitter, maybe you want to make that part of your New Year’s Resolution.  Her writing is insightful, emotionally resonant, and uncompromising...

https://pandabearshape.com/2016/12/25/link-nocturnal-animals-and-the-metaphor-of-fat-women/

I’d had Heavy in mind for the Trope Deep Dive from the start, and praises be to the movie gods, it went from “it’s a nice thought but I don’t know how I’ll get my hand on it” to “ho...

https://pandabearshape.com/2016/12/16/trope-deep-dive-wrapping-up-fat-men-and-thin-women-with-heavy-1995-dir-james-mangold/

This time last month, I was chiding people on Twitter to not become politically complacent just because we’ll have a woman president.  Funny how your expectations can be pulled out from under ...

https://pandabearshape.com/2016/11/21/moving-through-difficult-times-and-a-manifesto-in-progress/

It sucks that film criticism is a dwindling profession (and that I didn’t make life choices to result in it being my career), because I could live at film festivals.  I don’t do conventions...

https://pandabearshape.com/2016/10/28/roundup-the-52nd-annual-chicago-international-film-festival/