Category: Women

Sofia Coppola’s Best Director win at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival not only put a huge pin in the map of film history, it also…

It was incomprehensible how much weight Emma Watson put upon her slender shoulders when she embarked on the inspirational United Nations speech in 2014. I…

At last we reach the final part of the 100 Kick-Ass Female Film Characters – the blame for the delay lies with me and my…

There’s a deep moral message somewhere in the deep dark notion that if we are good to each other, look out for one another, we…

These women and girls represent the sly, and clever. They are humanitarian, or an upholding of family values. They are, at a very young age,…

A girl can spend years and years of her childhood in the wilderness in preparation for avenging her mother’s death. A woman can come face…

I spoke in depth to Barbara Ann O’Leary who created the Directed by Women initiative and website, an essential film-goers almanac. The pioneer talks a…

“Is this the stark reality?” says actress Jennifer Lawrence in a new letter penned on behalf of, and sincerely directed to, those who suffer the…

Welcome back to the Kick-Ass Female Film Characters series after what felt like a long break. It takes all sorts as a woman to kick…

Although we ought to have a good selection of those female characters that literally kick ass (or punch faces, shoot guns, leap from buildings, kill…

Kick-ass female film characters can help catapult the rights of women all over the world. They can spend the weekend fighting for their own stability….

They take a beating and a fall to fend for your family and friends. As care-givers, as sisters, daughters, mothers, they open the eyes of…

Like many of the great film characters in cinema, the need and act for survival are crucial. Whether it be in the emptiness of space,…

I think you get the point of this series. Female of all ages prove their worth on film. Here’s a starter for six: Jeanne d’Arc…