I think your enjoyment of this will depend on how much you love the specific films Freeman references, and so some essays held my attention more than others. Ghostbusters is not one of 'my' films for example, and that chapter seemed to meander around quite a bit looking for a point (this happens more than once, but the writing is generally entertaining enough to overlook it), so I skipped a lot of it. Other essays talk briefly about the films to segue into the main theme of the essay, when really I just wanted to read more about the movie. But she pulled me back in with the Batman essay and the wonderful ripping apart she does of the Nolan franchise, one I too can't really stand. Burton Batman, I'm here for you.

There are some really interesting facts and comments on the state of the film industry now versus the 80s, though it can be a little depressing sometimes to think we are going backwards in our representations of women in film, for example. I love that TV has opened up so many stories, but I also love going to the cinema and want to see stories other than the white man's plight represented. Or another damn superhero movie. It's a shame that to see that I have to return to films over thirty years old. But I guess at least they do exist.