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Year: 2020

curated: the roles typecast actors would prefer to play

Thu, Mar 05, 2020
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“We hope that these photos encourage viewers to reflect on the way that stereotypes persist in mass culture….”

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The Photograph movie review: love as a balancing act

Thu, Mar 05, 2020
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It’s meet-melancholy in an elegant, female-gazey romantic drama audaciously mingling past and present. A swanky celebration of confident, complex women and the bittersweetness of adult relationships.

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Push documentary review: why the rent is too damn high (and how to fix it)

Tue, Mar 03, 2020
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Badass UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha probes the global housing crisis and breaks down the complex cause into something readily comprehensible… then enraging. (But she has a solution, too.)

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 28

Sun, Mar 01, 2020
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Elisabeth Moss stars in The Invisible Man; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 28

Sun, Mar 01, 2020
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Elisabeth Moss stars in The Invisible Man; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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The Lodge movie review: stuck in miserably mushy snow

Thu, Feb 27, 2020
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This exasperating movie is so obnoxious it could be deliberately trolling us. Wants to have its ambiguous cake and eat it, too, smothered in a gloomy frosting. *extremely pinches nose in despair*

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 21

Sat, Feb 22, 2020
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Autumn de Wilde directs and Eleanor Catton writes Emma., starring Anya Taylor-Joy; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 21

Sat, Feb 22, 2020
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Danielle Sanchez-Witzel cowrites Like a Boss, starring Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Like a Boss movie review: it doesn’t quite fall down on the job

Sat, Feb 22, 2020
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This instantly forgettable fluff lazily relies on too many unfunny slapstick and grossout tangents. But real humor blossoms in the terrific performances and in a fast, funny, and surprising feminism.

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Dark Waters movie review: capitalism will kill ya

Thu, Feb 20, 2020
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If you like these sorts of movies, you’ll like this one, a solid SJW drama out to condemn, with plenty of evidence, profit-above-all capitalism that embraces willful negligence and corruption.

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