
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Mar 23
Teenaged girls dying, teenaged girls fighting monsters…
film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
Teenaged girls dying, teenaged girls fighting monsters…
Girls travel in space and fight monsters; women fight their own demons.
As a piece of craft, this is a smack in the face to Hollywood’s bloated blockbusters. As a piece of pulp, it brings a sharp, smart feminist twist to familiar tropes of cinematic paranoia.