Women’s Empowerment: Reading Sanctum Potpourri #11

Reading Sanctum: Potpourri is one of our continuing features of quick cut book reviews to help you find some otherwise innocuous books that might have escaped your attention. As a huge library/book reader geek, I love sharing stories about the books I am reading. So, if you love books like I love books, then you […]

Women’s Empowerment: Hawkeye?

The Hawkeye TV show premiered on Disney in late November 2021 with the release of the first two episodes. I was ecstatic because this is a character deserving of cinematic exploration. I mean, he’s a family man, member of the Avengers, former leader of the Avengers West Coast married to a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Bobbi […]

Women’s Empowerment: Z Nation

CONTRIBUTING WRITER Lance The (OMG!) Obscure Movie Guy When thinking of Women’s Empowerment, one would not usually land on a tv showcentralized on a Zombie Apocalypse. Some would say it’s obscure. Which for me, Lance The OMG, is the norm. But beyond all the zombies, cannibals, sadists, wannabe dictators, thieves, and murderers, you do find […]

Women’s Empowerment: Respectful Reel Review #26 — Enola Holmes (2020)

MOVIE TITLE: Enola Holmes IMDB YEAR RELEASED: 2020 GENRE: Young Adult / Mystery / Crime STARRING: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter, Louis Partridge, Burn Gorman, Adeel Akhtar, Susan Wokoma, Fiona Shaw DIRECTED BY: Harry Bradbeer SUMMARY: On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Enola Homes, younger sister to Mycroft and […]

Women’s Empowerment: Unbelievable A True Story of Perseverance

CONTRIBUTING WRITERDILSIA MARTINEZ / LADY GEEK I couldn’t even begin to imagine how one survives rape. Rape is a sexual assault carried out against a person without that person’s consent, usually involving the use of physical force. Unbelievable is the story of Marie Adler a teenage rape victim who is tied up, gagged, and brutally raped […]

women’s empowerment: the no. 1 ladies detective agency

“I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.” THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY is a television comedy/drama/mystery series produced by the BBC and HBO. It is based on a best-selling series […]

Women’s Empowerment: Reading Sanctum #20

One of the reasons we celebrate Women’s Empowerment, here at the Mustache and the Beard, and all over the United States is that we recognize that Geekery is not just exclusive to men. Many properties would have you believe that. The Teen Titans is not one of those properties. In fact, one might argue that […]

Women’s Empowerment: Cynthia Rothrock

CONTRIBUTING WRITER Lance The (OMG!) Obscure Movie Guy What do we mean by empowerment? How do we define it? Categorize it? What does empowerment mean to begin with? These were all things that I had to ask myself when I was asked by the Mustache to provide a blog post for them this month. It […]

women’s empowerment: CLEOPATRA JONES

She is 6ft. 2in. of dynamite wrapped in chocolate! CLEOPATRA JONES (1973) is a secret agent thriller produced by William “Bill” Tennant and Max Julien, written by Max Julien and Sheldon Keller, directed by Jack Starrett, and stars Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, and Shelley Winters. Cast TAMARA DOBSON as Cleopatra Jones SHELLEY WINTERS as Mommy BERNIE […]