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movies by or about women opening US/Can Dec 06

Sun, Dec 08, 2019
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Jessica Hausner directs and writes, with Géraldine Bajard, Little Joe, starring Emily Beecham; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Aug 30

Fri, Aug 30, 2019
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Joanna Hogg directs drama The Souvenir, starring Honor Swinton Byrne and costarring Tilda Swinton; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Where Are the Women? Fifty Shades of Grey

Sun, Feb 15, 2015
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Woman as a passive sexual object of a man, depicted via a male gaze: it’s everything that is wrong with how Hollywood represents women onscreen. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Fifty Shades of Grey movie review: neurotica

Sun, Feb 15, 2015
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A charm-free hero with control issues and a passive, fretful heroine have coy and tediously vanilla pretend-sex. This is meant to be erotic?

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