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I’m on two panels at the BFI’s Woman with a Movie Camera fest (now available globally!)

Wed, Jul 14, 2021
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In addition to my two prerecorded panels, I will pop into the live Zoom socials on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. You must buy your ticket by 5pm UK time on Friday. Please join us!

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today is the 22nd anniversary of Flick Filosopher

Sun, Sep 08, 2019
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On this day in 1997, I launched Flick Filosopher. Not many movie sites that were online in 1997 are still around. But me, like a fool? Still here.

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Jane Fonda in Five Acts documentary review: the political is her personal

Sun, Sep 23, 2018
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An extraordinarily intimate and perceptive new biography of the legendary actor and activist. Fonda reveals insecurities and anxieties that are achingly raw and very personal, but which many women will see themselves in.

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Submission movie review: a hot take on gender power dynamics from opposite-world

Wed, Mar 14, 2018
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In the moment of #MeToo, this tale of the relationship between a male professor and a young female student is howlingly out of step and outrageously tone deaf. And that’s on top of its tedious clichés.

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Fifty Shades Freed movie review: no shades of gray

Fri, Feb 09, 2018
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My Fifty Shades of Grey fantasy: Anastasia Steele gets a restraining order against Christian Grey, writes a tell-all book about him, and becomes a #MeToo/#TimesUp heroine. Mmm, sexy.

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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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