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The question of when to return to cinemas is a quandary with large ramifications...
An excerpt from Feminist Flicker #116 on Channillo - Birds of Prey
While nostalgia can be comforting on an individual level, large-scale nostalgia is where the wheels come off.
Mad Max: Fury Road - Feminist Flicker's 100th column.
Discussion of the Bill & Ted franchise feels very timely - not least because pop culture is currently reckoning with the fact that many old favourites are deeply problematic.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is one of the best Coen Brothers films ever made, because it seems to address the issue of their filmography focusing on male dominance.
Published recently, on Medium: Can We Have Movie Heroism Without The Sexism, Please? Most movie heroism, of men and women, is underpinned by the victimisation of women — and, ironically, that’s the only kind of gender equality in cinema The Bride (Uma Thurman) in Kill Bill It’s fairly standard Hollywood screenwriting. The hero can’t be... Continue Reading →
I present to you two contradictory facts. I loathe the character of Spider-Man, and Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse is one of the best films I've seen in a long time.
Celebrating my 80th Feminist Flicker column, with a deep dive into Dr Strangelove.
The film is about parenthood, not the dissection and reduction of women.
Sarah Myles 