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10 Must-Watch TV Shows To Get Your Cathartic Coming-Of-Age Fix Now That ‘PEN15’ Is Over
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(TV)
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... navigating love, friendships, and you guessed it, sex. The dorm-mates include booksmart and ambitious Kimberly Finkle (Pauline Chalamet- yes, Timothée Chalamet’s sis); confident comedy nerd Bela Malhorta ...
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Created on 19 January 2022
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Woman With A Plan: Actor/Writer/Director Natalie Morales Makes Media Made For US
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(TV)
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... film is breaking new ground.
Teen quest movies, particularly dude-centric ones, aren’t new (see: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Superbad, and 2019’s female-led Booksmart). But Plan B is rooted in a major ...
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Created on 21 May 2021
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Olivia Wilde To Direct Women-Centered Marvel Movie
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(Movies)
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... success with the coming-of-age movie Booksmart. Her film earned Katie Silberman a Writers Guild of America nomination for best original screenplay and it was one of last year’s best reviewed films. The ...
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Created on 21 August 2020
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This Russian Artist is Facing Six Years in Prison for LGBTQ+ Rights Instagram Posts
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(Arts)
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A Russian artist is facing six years in jail for posting LGBTQ+ rights and feminist posts on social media. Yulia Tsvetkova was recently put on house arrest and has been fined 50,000 rubels (or about ...
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Created on 17 January 2020
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The Top Feminist Moments From The 77th Golden Globes
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(Entertainment)
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... Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart and Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers, among others doing exceptionally well with critics and box office figures, like Melina Matsoukas Queen and Slim, where ...
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Created on 06 January 2020
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Not One Woman Director Was Nominated For A Golden Globe (Again)
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(Movies)
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... and directed by Lulu Wang, has a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and lost nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay. And I’m sorry, but Olivia Wilde missing out on a Best Director nomination for Booksmart ...
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Created on 09 December 2019
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Shadow Banning: Why Women Are Pretending To Be Men On Instagram
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(Feminism)
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... photo courtesy of Tofros.com via Pexels
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LGBTQ Creators Are Suing YouTube For Homophobic Censorship
Why Are Airlines Censoring The Queer Storyline In "Booksmart"?
7 Must-Read Pieces ...
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Created on 20 November 2019
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Annabelle Attanasio's Directorial Debut "Mickey and the Bear" Proves She's One To Wa
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(Movies)
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Earlier this year, Mickey and the Bear, a film written and directed by actress Annabelle Attanasio, received a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival. Since it premiered at SXSW, the film and Attanasio ...
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Created on 19 November 2019
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The Academy Snubs Yet Another Black Female Filmmaker
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(Movies)
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... from BUST
Why Are Airlines Censoring The Queer Storyline In "Booksmart"?
The Margaret Mead Film Festival Reminds Us Of The Importance Of Feminist Anthropology
Patricia Arquette On Activism, "Otherhood," ...
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Created on 06 November 2019
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10.
Molière in the Park Returns With "The School For Wives" In Prospect Par
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(Entertainment)
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...
Top photo via Molière in the Park
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Why Are Airlines Censoring The Queer Storyline In "Booksmart"?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wins The Berggruen Prize For Culture And Philosophy
The Next ...
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Created on 31 October 2019
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Why Are Airlines Censoring The Queer Storyline In "Booksmart"
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(Feminism)
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The film Booksmart shows graduating seniors Molly and Amy on a wild romp through their last 24 hours before high school graduation—a day packed with parties, plot twists, and romance. Despite the film’s ...
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Created on 29 October 2019
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Jillian Bell Wants To Tell A New Kind Of Story: BUST Interview
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(Movies)
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... originally appeared in the September/October 2019 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today!
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Olivia Wilde Called Out the Sexist Way We Talk About "Booksmart"
What Kristen Stewart' ...
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Created on 19 September 2019
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13.
"Hustlers" Brings Us A New Kind Of Girl Gan
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(Movies)
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Hustlers spoilers ahead.
Hustlers is just as thrilling as it might sound, starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, and others as a group of strippers who are hustling for their money – then, ultimately, ...
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Created on 13 September 2019
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14.
Week Of Women: September 13-19, 2019
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(Entertainment)
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... girl (Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever) charged with lying about rape – and two female detectives (Toni Collette and Merritt Wever) determined to get to the truth. Streaming September 13.
First Wives Club
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Created on 12 September 2019
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Pippa Bianco's "Share" Starts A Conversation About Redefining Redemption For Survivors of Sexual Assault ...
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(Movies)
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... on their judgment of survivors of sexual assault. Top photo: courtesy of A24
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Olivia Wilde Called Out the Sexist Way We Talk About "Booksmart"
Comedy Dynamo Beanie Feldstein ...
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Created on 11 September 2019
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16.
Olivia Wilde Called Out the Sexist Way We Talk About "Booksmart
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(Movies)
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Olivia Wilde, as the source of beauty and wit she is, has already given us so much with her directorial masterpiece from earlier this year, Booksmart. And yet, she has imparted even more of her wisdom ...
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Created on 06 September 2019
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17.
Comedy Dynamo Beanie Feldstein Is Living The Dream: BUST Interview
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(Entertainment)
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... “Broads Bite Back,” a letter “B”—as well as a delicate necklace sporting the name of her excellent May 2019 comedy, Booksmart, written in cursive.
A diehard musical theater fan since she was a toddler, ...
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Created on 28 July 2019
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BUST's July/August 2019 Issue With Awkwafina On Newsstands NOW! ...
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(Entertainment)
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... Beanie Feldstein from Booksmart, legendary Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth, and Pose’s Billy Porter; a peek inside the world of women living that #VanLife; an exploration of Korea’s emerging feminist ...
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Created on 01 July 2019
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19.
How Teen Movies Shaped Us — Possibly For The Worse
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(Movies)
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... men to lift us up, to make us feel beautiful, or give us a sense of belonging. That’s why films like Booksmart that center on female friendships and not boys are so revolutionary: because there isn’t really ...
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Created on 27 June 2019
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"Late Night" Gives Us Female Friendship in the Most Unlikely of Place
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(Movies)
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... On BUST's Poptarts Podcast
"Booksmart" Is The Feminist High School Movie We've Been Missing
“The Hustle” Composer Anne Dudley On Her Creative Process And Storytelling Through Music: BUST Interview
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Created on 06 June 2019