movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Halloween is a minor fan-fiction take on the 40-year-old franchise’s mythology: Hey, maybe middle-aged Laurie Strode likes guns LOL? Nowhere near as feminist or as psychologically incisive as it thinks it is. And it’s not even scary. Read the review…
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- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Oct 12
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- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Oct 03
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Oct 03
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again this Sunday, October 7th
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Sep 28
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Sep 28
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- Where Are the Women? goes to Ravencon
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Sep 19
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finest internets
- curated: Jodie Whittaker is getting paid the same as the male Doctors
- curated: contemplating ‘The Good Place’…
- curated: writers and musicians are being denied visas for professional visits to the UK
- curated: was an unidentified Cape Cop murder victim an extra in ‘Jaws’?
- curated: as long as Hollywood is dominated by white men…
- curated: racist science fiction and Donald Trump
- curated: vampire capitalists are killing journalism
- curated: NPR erases the work of a woman journalist… in a story about her work
- curated: the con artist impersonating the (few) powerful women of Hollywood
- curated: Brie Larson wants more diverse film critics; white dudes unhappy
- curated: even when women film critics exist, we’re ignored by gatekeepers
- curated: horrible “fans” hound Kelly Marie Tran off Instagram
- curated: Lando Calrissian, space vlogger
- curated: now I *really* want to see Lord & Miller’s Han Solo movie
- curated: ‘Show Dogs’ gets recut following complaints it helps pedophiles
- curated: has the Internet killed cultural criticism?
