- 1. Issa Rae and Jenny Slate Are Back With Brand New Projects: Our Top 10 Pop Culture Picks For Summer
- (Entertainment)
- ... average humans come together to fight evil on Netflix, beginning June 15. Photos: (The Janes) HBO Documentary Films; (Marcel) A24; ("Our Selves") MOMA; (Creative, Not Famous) Ayun Halliday; (Ms. Marvel) ...
- Created on 02 June 2022
- 2. This Virtual Film Series Featuring 9 Films On The History of Reproductive Rights In The US, Is Free All Month
- (Feminism)
- ... to make abortion inaccessible to women. Women Make Movies, a distributor of independent films produced and directed by women, is making a selection of nine films available for the public on the history ...
- Created on 12 May 2022
- 3. French Abortion Drama "Happening" Shows a Realistic Look At The Consequences of Repealing Roe v. Wad
- (Music)
- HAPPENING Co-written and directed by Audrey Diwan Out May 6 Happening is set in France in 1963, but without the period-appropriate costumes, it would be hard to distinguish it from present-day America—or ...
- Created on 03 May 2022
- 4. Roe v. Wade Doesn't Actually Make Abortion Accessible For Everyone. This Short Film Explains Why
- (Movies)
- ... look at the harsh reality the Hyde Amendment creates for millions of women across the country. What inspired you to create this short film? Janet Goldwater: Barbara and I have worked together on films ...
- Created on 03 March 2021
- 5. Female-Led Indie Movies Dominated Releases This Past Year: Here Are Ten You Should Watch (Without Going To The Theater)
- (Movies)
- ... a number of phenomenal films dealing with diverse accounts of contemporary womanhood. Here are ten that should definitely be on your watch-list this awards season: Kajillionaire This film is probably ...
- Created on 16 February 2021
- 6. “Little Fires Everywhere” Star Megan Stott Unpacks Izzy’s Story: BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... but at the same time, my main goal is feature films,” she explains. “It’s nice to have new characters on every new film. I think that’s something that I love, because characters are my life.” The first ...
- Created on 20 April 2020
- 7. "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" And The State Of Abortion In Americ
- (Movies)
- ... the abortion at its center is far from being the film's most dramatic or emotional plot point. When Autumn, a 17-year-old living in rural Pennsylvania, discovers she’s pregnant, she quickly learns she has ...
- Created on 10 March 2020
- 8. 4 Must-See Films About Women From Sundance That Are Sure To Make An Impact
- (Movies)
- Attending the Sundance Film Festival is a great way to check out what’s going to be relevant for the coming year. This trip I watched twelve films in four days. Sounds like a lot, but with 118 feature ...
- Created on 04 February 2020
- 9. How Much Do You Know About Agnès Varda? Take The BUST Pop Quiz!
- (Entertainment)
- ... Manifesto of the 343,” proclaiming that they had ______. a. had an abortion b. had sex before marriage c. directed films under a male pseudonym d. secretly gotten divorced Which of Agnès’ films was a ...
- Created on 26 August 2019
- 10. W. Kamau Bell Stands In Solidarity Against Abortion Bans With #ShoutYourVasectomy
- (Feminism)
- ... incentives. But when Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed the outlandish fetal heartbeat bill into law, men in Hollywood like Peele and Abrams took action. Other actors like Jason Bateman, who films his ...
- Created on 20 May 2019
- 11. Hollywood Reacts To Georgia’s New Heartbeat Law
- (Feminism)
- ... of all citizens remain intact. Other filmmakers will see this. https://t.co/V2xDPKiMpo — David Simon (@AoDespair) May 8, 2019 Right after Simon's tweets, Christine Vachon, CEO of Killer Films, ...
- Created on 10 May 2019
- 12. 4 Black Women Who Changed The World
- (Feminism)
- ... that played into already damaging black stereotypes, choosing to appear in musical variety films as herself, and point blank refusing to take parts that cast her as a "singing maid." This proved to be ...
- Created on 04 February 2019
- 13. What "Twilight" Taught Us About Sex And Virginit
- (Movies)
- ... their characters ever went on a date. In looking back on the films, it becomes impossible not to see all the backwards notions around sex and virginity the films and books were feeding our romance-crazed ...
- Created on 05 December 2018
- 14. BUST School for Creative Living Presents: Live Taping of BUST's "Poptarts" Podcast With Janeane Garofal
- (Poptarts)
- ... Garofalo is a veteran comedian, writer and actress. She has co-starred in some of your favorite films including Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Reality Bites, Wet Hot American Summer and Sweethearts. ...
- Created on 30 November 2018
- 15. Sandra Oh, Before "Killing Eve": From The BUST Archive
- (TV)
- ... And you don’t have as many films that do that. I mean, how typical is the wife role or the girlfriend role? There’s always got to be a good-looking woman there. But she is just there, she is just an appendage. ...
- Created on 18 July 2018
- 16. Rosario Dawson On Her Family, Her Activism, And Why She Calls "Death Proof" A Chick Flick: From The BUST Archive
- (Movies)
- ... Tarantino’s Death Proof, in which she stars, and the screening of her first coproduction, Descent (opening in limited release in October). Between discussing the films, she’s blistering my ear with a rapid-fire ...
- Created on 13 June 2018
- 17. Cynthia Nixon, Before She Ran For Governor: From The BUST Archives
- (TV)
- ... films (Amadeus, Baby’s Day Out, The Pelican Brief), and recently performed in a Broadway production of The Women. And she’s no slouch in the citizenry department, either: she’s taken an active role in ...
- Created on 27 April 2018
- 18. How Much Do You Know About Judy Garland?
- (Movies)
- A singing/dancing/acting triple threat, Judy Garland made the leap from the vaudeville stage to Hollywood immortality in films like The Wizard of Oz and A Star is Born. Think you know how she got ...
- Created on 18 October 2017
- 19. Gina Rodriguez Of "Jane The Virgin" On Her Boyfriend, Her Feminism, And Her Plan To Make TV More Inclusiv
- (Feminism)
- ... the box office every weekend. That’s a lot! So if you want to see Latinos in big studio films, and they don’t exist in them, don’t see them, because in this industry, money talks more than anything. If ...
- Created on 22 September 2017
- 20. How Women Directors Show The Nuanced Reality Of Female Friendship
- (Movies)
- ... and solidarity with each other, both through more women entering the workplace, and through their involvement in the women’s movement internationally.” Girlfriends Films with women at the helm in the ...
- Created on 19 September 2017
