It’s Valentine’s Day, and the movie studios have rolled out chick flicks like bouquets for every gal whose husband or boyfriend has ever disappointed them. Thank goodness. Or so that seems to ...

Most involve a wedding, a boyfriend or, usually, both. And they’re often just bad movies. They are what we call “chick flicks.” That odious term now seems to describe all films about women ...

Having grown up with two sisters and no brothers, I am well-versed in the “chick flick” movie genre. The term chick flick usually incites eye rolling and sarcastic comments from men ...

Is the expression “chick flicks” a put-down? Movie marketers think of “chick flicks” in a positive sense — films that appeal to female sensibilities but also transcend gender boundaries.

Maybe you don't care for the phrase "chick flicks." How about "romantic comedies ... the fictional love life of Shakespeare himself. The movie's success was no doubt aided in part by the casting ...

What was really going on, of course, is that women were claiming a new kind of ownership of some of the only movies that were actually aimed their way. The term “chick flick” sealed that ...