- 1. 8 Best Horror Movies of 2022 Featuring Women to Watch (or Rewatch) at Your Next Movie Night
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- ... “Oftentimes in period pieces we’re boiled down to a hyperspiritualized figure or this violent savage caricature…It affects you when you hardly ever see anybody who looks like you or represents you.” Prey’s ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 2. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
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- I love a good queer period drama. Carol is my favorite Christmas movie. Gentleman Jack sent me on a deep dive through the Anne Lister Diaries on Audible. I’ll even go for a screening of If These Walls ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 3. Jodie Comer Serves Up A Revolutionary Performance In "Prima Facie," A Must-See As Women's Rights Continue To Be Attack
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- ... For National Statistics, in England and Wales in 2021 "sexual offences recorded by the police were at the highest level recorded within a 12-month period (170,973 offences)." In 2021 alone there were 63,136 ...
- Created on 18 August 2022
- 4. French Abortion Drama "Happening" Shows a Realistic Look At The Consequences of Repealing Roe v. Wad
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- 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
- 5. Keke Palmer Scores Big For Black Women And Liberation In "Alice" Now Streaming On Deman
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- What would you do if you found out that freedom was closer than you thought? Or simply a state of mind. Alice, the brainchild of debut director Krystin Ver Linden, is a revenge thriller set in the Antebellum ...
- Created on 08 April 2022
- 6. 9 Hot Pieces of Feminist Media, Including Podcasts, Documentaries, and New Releases From Björk and Laurie Anderson
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- ... November 26 on Showtime. 4. Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room at the Met Helmed by lead curator Hannah Beachler, Before Yesterday We Could Fly is a new long-term installation ...
- Created on 15 February 2022
- 7. 10 Female-Driven Holiday Films To Cozy Up With This Winter
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- Need some fun flicks to round out your next holiday movie night? Have no fear! We’ve got you covered with some amazing by-women, for-women movies guaranteed to get you feelin’ festive. 200 ...
- Created on 02 December 2021
- 8. St Vincent Speaks to Carrie Brownstein About Their New Film "The Nowhere Inn," Their Feelings About Feminism, and the Dangers of Believing Your Own Hyp
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- ... “Good, there’s someone else carrying the torch.” We can make a contemplative mid-or-late-period record, because the next generation is thrashing around out there. SV: Absolutely. I was thinking about ...
- Created on 30 November 2021
- 9. A Fragmented Fisher- The Views That Feed Into the Memory of the Iconic Carrie Fisher
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- ... was nervous, never felt like she was enough, and was constantly insecure. She was a 19-year-old desperately in love with a 33-year-old married man. Don’t take this period of insecurity and uncertainty ...
- Created on 04 May 2021
- 10. Reclaiming The Lens: 10 Women Filmmakers Spearheading The New Wave in Black Cinema
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- ... for Mudbound, a dramatic period piece exploring heightened racial tensions in the deep south. The critically-acclaimed film is streaming now on Netflix. 3. Tourmaline Tourmaline’s filmmaking career ...
- Created on 22 April 2021
- 11. The Historic 2021 Oscars Nominations Could Mean Big Business For Future Women in Film
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- ... Piano, a period drama about a psychologically mute woman entering an arranged marriage, and Sophia Coppola was nominated in 2004 for her Tokyo love story Lost in Translation. In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became ...
- Created on 15 March 2021
- 12. In The "My Salinger Year" Movie, Margaret Qualley's Joanna Rakoff is a Secondary Character in Her Own Sto
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- ... It's a story about Rakoff, disguised as a story about Salinger; with the movie, the opposite is true. Despite My Salinger Year’s relatively recent time period, both the book and the movie ...
- Created on 09 March 2021
- 13. Catch First Time Directorial Debuts From Questlove to Rebecca Hall, 10 Must-See Films From Sundance 2021
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- ... York period romance then THE WORLD TO COME is for you. Mona Fastvold directs this melancholy story of unrequited love with understated beauty. Abigail (Katherine Waterston), filled with grief from the ...
- Created on 12 February 2021
- 14. Five Women Who Shaped Motown Soul: Not Just Pretty Faces, but the Heart of Hitsville U.S.A.
- (Music)
- ... the 1990s, when there was a major resurgence in interest in her music during England’s Northern Soul period. She continues to record and tour, and she released her most recent single in 2018. 4. ...
- Created on 10 February 2021
- 15. 5 great female-focused French films to watch tout suite!
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- ... cancer diagnosis to when she receives the results, and the anxious waiting period in between. The film is often recognized for its feminist perspective and the questions it raises about external perceptions ...
- Created on 08 February 2021
- 16. Does Your Favorite Lesbian Film Pass This Test?
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- ... this piece, another period drama, The World to Come, was announced, to begin streaming March 2021.) Not to mention, there hasn’t been a blockbuster lesbian film involving a woman of color in years. The ...
- Created on 05 February 2021
- 17. “Ammonite” Overlooks the Real Life Story of Paleontologist Mary Anning
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- ... follows in the footsteps of films like Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite and Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire—period dramas that rightly emphasize the fact that lesbians have always existed. But ...
- Created on 13 November 2020
- 18. This Sarah Paulson Dancing Trend on TikTok Cured My Anxiety, I Swear
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- ... PERIODT ##fyp ##sarahpaulson ##EmilyinParis ♬ Said Sum remix - 25k❓🤷🏾♂️ It didn’t take long for the Nurse Ratched star’s candid dancing from a 2018 Ellen Show appearance dubbed over “Said ...
- Created on 07 October 2020
- 19. What’s So Funny? Pop Culture Still Doesn’t Know How To Handle Bulimia
- (Entertainment)
- ... type of person who develops it. In my own case, bulimia developed out of months of food restriction, during a period of depression I felt helpless to overcome. I had never heard about bulimia’s health ...
- Created on 17 September 2020
- 20. Meet The Marvel Cinematic Universe's First Black Woman Director, Nia DaCosta ...
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- ... Peele-produced Candyman sequel. DaCosta was born and raised in New York and attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. "There was a period when I thought I wanted to be an actress, after ...
- Created on 06 August 2020
