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hollywood hates women

Fanny Lye deliver’d from her own deliverance with the dick-washed US poster for ‘The Delivered’

Thu, Dec 03, 2020
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It’s the dick-washing of The Sapphires all over again.

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as I’ve been saying: YES, the cultural context and content of a film MATTERS

Thu, Jun 25, 2020
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But now a man is saying it, so maybe someone will listen?

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curated: “Movies Starring Women Earn More Than Male-Led Films”

Wed, Dec 12, 2018
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This is even better than my Where Are the Women? project found…

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PBS ‘Frontline’ and BBC ‘Panorama’ take on Harvey Weinstein

Fri, Mar 02, 2018
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A good primer on the rapid unraveling of Harvey Weinstein, with hints of how much more story there may still be to tell.

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WTF?! UK DVD release of ‘Megan Leavey’ pretends the movie isn’t about Megan Leavey

Thu, Feb 22, 2018
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Perhaps you can imagine my rage when I saw this…

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things Hollywood men could have said at the Golden Globes

Tue, Jan 09, 2018
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These will all work at the Oscars too! Feel free to steal ’em, guys.

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I’m highlighting female participation in a film with each new review

Fri, Jan 05, 2018
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Quick visual icons to the top of each review will indicate whether a film has a female director, writer, and/or protagonist.

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at the 20th anniversary of ‘Titanic,’ where are all the knockoffs?

Wed, Nov 29, 2017
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We should be absolutely sick to death of all the cash-ins, pseudo-remakes and imitators. Where are they?

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Passengers movie review: lost in sexist space

Sat, Dec 24, 2016
368 comments

After a few quick nods to the profoundly unethical act at its core, it shrugs it off and uses it as the basis for its fairy-tale romance. This is not okay.

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curated: Why Him?

Wed, Nov 16, 2016
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Why this movie?

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