Category: Women

Frida Kahlo once said, “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” The artist as subject matter for a film would seem, on the…

   This piece contains spoilers of Promising Young Woman, especially the ending. Please, if you have not watched the movie, stop reading this, go watch…

2017 will always be the year of my favorite coming-of-age movies. And while I am a huge fan of Lady Bird, I don’t think it…

In Jessica M. Thompson’s The Light of the Moon, a woman rediscovers intimacy with her boyfriend after she is raped while walking home. The film…

Sometimes the best horror films have an unknown enemy. A common feature in many horror villains, especially within the slasher subgenre. It is used with…

Debuting in the spring of 1996 as a sleeper hit, The Craft stands as a pretty solid entry into the golden age of teen films…

I think that girls who insult people are very attractive. Howard Hawks There was a type of female role in Hollywood of the 1940’s that…

Originally posted on In Their Own League on September 17th Here are some statistics from the Women and Hollywood survey from 2018 that I would…

The dearly departed Agnès Varda, is not dead at all. We can go back and cherry pick from her illustrious filmography any time we please….

Film history classes may pound the French New Wave into the heads of cinema students everywhere, but not much is said about the Czech New…

In Kitty Green’s The Assistant, the slow simmer of impending doom permeates the film. Its 87 minute runtime still manages to pack a whole lot of…

Nora Kirkpatrick’s Long Time Listener, First Time Caller is a jewel of a film that like any precious stone, never fails to impress no matter…

Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (1968) is a Russian romantic-comedy, being a success for the Russian film industry with 26 million people seeing it in…

A young man paces up and down, by a tree, reading poetry. The same young man interrupts himself in voiceover, overlapping the diegetic dialogue with…