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Made in Montana: Wildlife and the Beautiful Fru...
Jennifer Verzuh reflects on Paul Dano’s Wildlife and her parallel memories of growing up from Great Falls, Montana.
Made in Montana: Wildlife and the Beautiful Fru...
Jennifer Verzuh reflects on Paul Dano’s Wildlife and her parallel memories of growing up from Great Falls, Montana.
"There's A Part of Us That's Animal": Meeting J...
Ella Kemp talks to Josephine Decker and Helena Howard about Madeline’s Madeline, living in New York and the things they wish they had told their mothers.
"There's A Part of Us That's Animal": Meeting J...
Ella Kemp talks to Josephine Decker and Helena Howard about Madeline’s Madeline, living in New York and the things they...
"You're My Fantasy": Postcards from the Edge an...
Laura Venning remembers Carrie Fisher’s irrepressible legacy via the semi-autobiographical Postcards From the Edge.
"You're My Fantasy": Postcards from the Edge an...
Laura Venning remembers Carrie Fisher’s irrepressible legacy via the semi-autobiographical Postcards From the Edge.
The Labour of Love: Made in Dagenham, Silvia Fe...
Liz Hew celebrates Sally Hawkins’ birthday with a thorough understanding of the conditions of the militant working woman in Made in Dagenham.
The Labour of Love: Made in Dagenham, Silvia Fe...
Liz Hew celebrates Sally Hawkins’ birthday with a thorough understanding of the conditions of the militant working woman in Made...
The Quiet Girl is Finally Talking: The Voices o...
Emily Maskell looks back on the brilliance of The Edge of Seventeen and Eighth Grade, celebrating the underseen strength of these new teenage girls.
The Quiet Girl is Finally Talking: The Voices o...
Emily Maskell looks back on the brilliance of The Edge of Seventeen and Eighth Grade, celebrating the underseen strength of...
Fleabag, Untethered Intimacy and Breaking the F...
Emma Fraser looks back on the history of breaking the fourth wall to pinpoint how Phoebe Waller-Bridge got it so right with Fleabag.
Fleabag, Untethered Intimacy and Breaking the F...
Emma Fraser looks back on the history of breaking the fourth wall to pinpoint how Phoebe Waller-Bridge got it so...
Auntie Xhano: Chronicles of Intimacy in Albania...
Jona Xhepa spotlights the singular legacy of Xhanfize Keko, Albania’s sole female filmmaker.
Auntie Xhano: Chronicles of Intimacy in Albania...
Jona Xhepa spotlights the singular legacy of Xhanfize Keko, Albania’s sole female filmmaker.
Female Beasts: Animalistic Sexuality in Fish Ta...
Savina Petkova dissects the power of human desire through the bodies that experience it, in Andrea Arnold’s last two films.
Female Beasts: Animalistic Sexuality in Fish Ta...
Savina Petkova dissects the power of human desire through the bodies that experience it, in Andrea Arnold’s last two films....
Alice's Wonderland: Neorealist Magic in the Fil...
Caitlin Quinlan dives into the magic of Italian fantasy-maker Alice Rohrwacher’s filmography.
Alice's Wonderland: Neorealist Magic in the Fil...
Caitlin Quinlan dives into the magic of Italian fantasy-maker Alice Rohrwacher’s filmography.
Hideous Kinky and Learning to Better Love My Mum
Annie Lord comes to terms with her overprotected teenage years through the anarchic upbringing of two young girls in Hideous Kinky.
Hideous Kinky and Learning to Better Love My Mum
Annie Lord comes to terms with her overprotected teenage years through the anarchic upbringing of two young girls in Hideous...
Meditation Park, a Love Letter to the Second “C...
Priya Minhas reflects on reciprocal healing and immigrant mothers, her own and those on our screens, via Meditation Park.
Meditation Park, a Love Letter to the Second “C...
Priya Minhas reflects on reciprocal healing and immigrant mothers, her own and those on our screens, via Meditation Park.
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