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weekend watchlist: hacking capitalism

Tue, Aug 02, 2022
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Plus the horror stories women live, cold cops, and more. (First published July 2nd, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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Death on the Nile movie review: Kenneth Branagh steps in the same river twice

Wed, Feb 16, 2022
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This should be salacious! We should revel in the seething jealousy and simmering resentments! But there’s not much suspense or engagement in waiting for someone to die, nor in finding out whodunnit.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 04–06

Sun, Mar 08, 2020
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Kelly Reichardt cowrites and directs First Cow; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced

Mon, Jan 13, 2020
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And we have winners!

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Captain Marvel movie review: superpowered female SJW invites manbaby nerds to suck it

Sun, Mar 10, 2019
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An indie ethos comes to the comic-book movie, upending the origin story and offering a female superhero who throws out the boys’ rule book, goes her own way, and stalks among us with easy confidence.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Sep 06

Fri, Sep 07, 2018
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Taissa Farmiga investigates a demonic nun; Chloë Grace Moretz goes to gay conversion therapy; more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri May 11

Sat, May 12, 2018
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Elisabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Mare Winningham, and Annette Bening take on Chekhov; Gemma Arterton runs away from her family; and more…

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BAFTA 2018 winners announced

Mon, Feb 19, 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big…

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AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 09, 2018
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The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.

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20th Century Women movie review: sometimes it’s hard to be a woman

Tue, Feb 07, 2017
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Poignant and hilarious and wise, a melancholy ode to a moment when when the world was changing for women (and men)… and how it still and always is.

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