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Wolf Girls and Hatters: The Emotional Strength ...
Zoe Crombie analyses the characters beyond Hollywood that finally helped her see herself.
Wolf Girls and Hatters: The Emotional Strength ...
Zoe Crombie analyses the characters beyond Hollywood that finally helped her see herself.
If It Kills Me: Trauma, Fatherhood, and Minding...
Hannah Woodhead shines a light on working-class fatherhood, masculinity and abuse in her own hometown memories and Minding the Gap.
If It Kills Me: Trauma, Fatherhood, and Minding...
Hannah Woodhead shines a light on working-class fatherhood, masculinity and abuse in her own hometown memories and Minding the Gap.
‘It Was Photographed Where it Happened’: The Em...
Katie Da Cunha Lewin explores the forgotten legacy of the female director who changed Hollywood.
‘It Was Photographed Where it Happened’: The Em...
Katie Da Cunha Lewin explores the forgotten legacy of the female director who changed Hollywood.
What Binds Us: The Double Vision and Competing ...
What Binds Us: The Double Vision and Competing Desires of Bound — by Catherine O’Sullivan
What Binds Us: The Double Vision and Competing ...
What Binds Us: The Double Vision and Competing Desires of Bound — by Catherine O’Sullivan
"You Order For Me": In the Mood for Love and Ch...
“You Order For Me”: In the Mood for Love and Chinese Attitudes Towards Food — Ava Wong Davies
"You Order For Me": In the Mood for Love and Ch...
“You Order For Me”: In the Mood for Love and Chinese Attitudes Towards Food — Ava Wong Davies
Moon-Festooned Memories: The Footloose Brillian...
Moon-Festooned Memories: The Footloose Brilliance Of The Overnight Film Festival — By Nicole Davis
Moon-Festooned Memories: The Footloose Brillian...
Moon-Festooned Memories: The Footloose Brilliance Of The Overnight Film Festival — By Nicole Davis
A Weird Girl's Weird Girl: An Ode to Aubrey Plaza
A Weird Girl’s Weird Girl: An Ode to Aubrey Plaza — By Brianna Zigler
A Weird Girl's Weird Girl: An Ode to Aubrey Plaza
A Weird Girl’s Weird Girl: An Ode to Aubrey Plaza — By Brianna Zigler
Butterflies in the Bedroom: Space, Place and Po...
Butterflies in the Bedroom: Space, Place and Poetry in Jane Campion’s Bright Star — By Laura Venning
Butterflies in the Bedroom: Space, Place and Po...
Butterflies in the Bedroom: Space, Place and Poetry in Jane Campion’s Bright Star — By Laura Venning
What Would They Say? The Onlooking Children of ...
What Would They Say? The Onlooking Children of Nadine Labaki— By Cathy Brennan
What Would They Say? The Onlooking Children of ...
What Would They Say? The Onlooking Children of Nadine Labaki— By Cathy Brennan
The Pursuit of Happiness: Emily Beecham on Dang...
Ella Kemp interviews Emily Beecham about Little Joe, garish pinks and the potentials of taoism.
The Pursuit of Happiness: Emily Beecham on Dang...
Ella Kemp interviews Emily Beecham about Little Joe, garish pinks and the potentials of taoism.
Who The Fuck Is On Top Their First Time? Demyst...
Demystifying Virginity in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird — By Mary Beth McAndrews
Who The Fuck Is On Top Their First Time? Demyst...
Demystifying Virginity in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird — By Mary Beth McAndrews
Anger, She Wrote: The Changing Faces of Female ...
Anger, She Wrote: The Changing Faces of Female Rage — By Becky Matthews
Anger, She Wrote: The Changing Faces of Female ...
Anger, She Wrote: The Changing Faces of Female Rage — By Becky Matthews
She Wears The Crown: Sex As Power In Mary Queen...
She Wears The Crown: Sex As Power In Mary Queen of Scots and The Favourite — By Iana Murray
She Wears The Crown: Sex As Power In Mary Queen...
She Wears The Crown: Sex As Power In Mary Queen of Scots and The Favourite — By Iana Murray
Daydreaming Teenagers and Lesbian Loners: Marie...
Daydreaming Teenagers and Lesbian Loners: Marielle Heller’s Female Outcasts — By Yasmin Omar
Daydreaming Teenagers and Lesbian Loners: Marie...
Daydreaming Teenagers and Lesbian Loners: Marielle Heller’s Female Outcasts — By Yasmin Omar
The Creation of Woman: Lovesick Androids Escapi...
The Creation of Woman: Lovesick Androids Escaping Their Makers — By Ashley Wells
The Creation of Woman: Lovesick Androids Escapi...
The Creation of Woman: Lovesick Androids Escaping Their Makers — By Ashley Wells
Spaghetti Carbonara After Sex: The Importance o...
Spaghetti Carbonara After Sex: The Importance of Food in Nora Ephron’s Heartburn —By Charlotte Duff
Spaghetti Carbonara After Sex: The Importance o...
Spaghetti Carbonara After Sex: The Importance of Food in Nora Ephron’s Heartburn —By Charlotte Duff
This Woman’s Work: Water and Labour in Alfonso ...
This Woman’s Work: Water and Labour in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma — By Katie Goh
This Woman’s Work: Water and Labour in Alfonso ...
This Woman’s Work: Water and Labour in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma — By Katie Goh
Bookending Harsh Worlds: The Solemn Poetry of L...
Bookending Harsh Worlds: The Solemn Poetry of Lynne Ramsay — By Julia Teti
Bookending Harsh Worlds: The Solemn Poetry of L...
Bookending Harsh Worlds: The Solemn Poetry of Lynne Ramsay — By Julia Teti
Call Her By Her Name: Building a City of Women ...
Call Her By Her Name: Building a City of Women in Film Titles — By Nicole Davis
Call Her By Her Name: Building a City of Women ...
Call Her By Her Name: Building a City of Women in Film Titles — By Nicole Davis
Girls Don't See Movies: Twilight's Bittersweet ...
Girls Don't See Movies: Twilight's Bittersweet 10th Birthday and the Misogyny of Fan Culture — By Katie Goh
Girls Don't See Movies: Twilight's Bittersweet ...
Girls Don't See Movies: Twilight's Bittersweet 10th Birthday and the Misogyny of Fan Culture — By Katie Goh
One, Two, Princes Kneel Before You: Telling Fai...
One, Two, Princes Kneel Before You: Telling Fairytales by Gaslight in Caught and Phantom Thread — By Manuela Lazic
One, Two, Princes Kneel Before You: Telling Fai...
One, Two, Princes Kneel Before You: Telling Fairytales by Gaslight in Caught and Phantom Thread — By Manuela Lazic
25 Years of Androgyny: Tilda Swinton and a New ...
25 Years of Androgyny: Tilda Swinton and a New Kind of Postgenderism — By Megan Christopher
25 Years of Androgyny: Tilda Swinton and a New ...
25 Years of Androgyny: Tilda Swinton and a New Kind of Postgenderism — By Megan Christopher
Nasty, Grisly Fantasies: Why Women Gorge on Hor...
Nasty, Grisly Fantasies: Why Women Gorge on Horror Movies — By Katie Goh
Nasty, Grisly Fantasies: Why Women Gorge on Hor...
Nasty, Grisly Fantasies: Why Women Gorge on Horror Movies — By Katie Goh
From Zombies to Cannibalism: Finding Humanity i...
VIDEO ESSAY — From Zombies to Cannibalism: Finding Humanity in Julia Ducournau’s Raw — By Grace Lee
From Zombies to Cannibalism: Finding Humanity i...
VIDEO ESSAY — From Zombies to Cannibalism: Finding Humanity in Julia Ducournau’s Raw — By Grace Lee
Inside the artist's studio: Manipulation & Euph...
Inside the artist’s studio: Manipulation & Euphoria in Madeline’s Madeline — By Iana Murray
Inside the artist's studio: Manipulation & Euph...
Inside the artist’s studio: Manipulation & Euphoria in Madeline’s Madeline — By Iana Murray
Men, women and children: the tactile control of...
Men, women and children: the tactile control of the female gaze at TIFF — By Ella Kemp
Men, women and children: the tactile control of...
Men, women and children: the tactile control of the female gaze at TIFF — By Ella Kemp