Ania Ostrowska, Author at The F-Word

New review: The Skin I Live In

Ania Ostrowska30 November 2011

Remaining spooked and preoccupied, Mhairi Guild still appreciates density and creativity of Almodovar's latest grotesque fairytale of not-only-gender identity, ...

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New review: The Ides of March

Ania Ostrowska4 November 2011

Taraneh Ghajar Jerven is disappointed with George Clooney's new film which renders women insignificant both on-screen and in politics Perhaps you were lured i...

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New review: Tyrannosaur

Ania Ostrowska24 October 2011

Finding Tyrannosaur an unremittingly upsetting film, Chloe George salutes its ability to avoid clichés in the portrayal of violence against women Hannah doesn'...

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New review: She Monkeys

Ania Ostrowska13 October 2011

Hailing the coming-of-age story of adolescent sexuality and fierce competition between female equestrians, Ania Ostrowska has her heart set on the youngest of t...

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She Monkeys

Ania Ostrowska13 October 2011

Hailing the coming-of-age story of adolescent sexuality and fierce competition between female equestrians, Ania Ostrowska has her heart set on the youngest of three heroines ...

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New review: I don’t know how she does it

Ania Ostrowska3 October 2011

This Hollywood blockbuster's heroine is a high-flying finance executive, but Diane Shipley argues that women across classes and careers share parts of her predi...

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New review: Heavenly creatures

Ania Ostrowska11 September 2011

Revisiting the film she loved unconditionally as a teenager, Jess McCabe still finds its portrayal of two young perpetrators of a horrific crime highly compelli...

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New review: Romcom roundup: the friends with benefits phenomenon

Ania Ostrowska6 September 2011

'Friends with benefits' is not such a novelty as a recent series of Hollywood films is trying to present it, says Evelyn Krampf, debunking the phenomenon as a m...

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Film competition: Heavenly Creatures re-mastered

Ania Ostrowska5 September 2011

Heavenly Creatures is the 1994 film by Peter Jackson that put him on the international film circuit and rocketed Kate Winslet to fame. Based on a crime that ...

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New review: Break my fall

Ania Ostrowska28 July 2011

For those who can appreciate an at times painful study of relationship falling apart set in contemporary Hackney, the latest Harry Potter will be no competitor ...

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New review: ‘Because sex workers shouldn’t have to be dead to be on film’

Ania Ostrowska14 July 2011

Ania Ostrowska reviews the first ever London Sex Worker Film Festival and argues that sex workers' rights are a feminist issue Last month London hosted, alon...

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‘Because sex workers shouldn’t have to be dead to be on film’

Ania Ostrowska14 July 2011

Ania Ostrowska reviews the first ever London Sex Worker Film Festival and argues that sex workers' rights are a feminist issue ...

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New review: Briseis in Troy and Stockholm syndrome

Ania Ostrowska29 June 2011

Far from being a feisty embodiment of female empowerment, Briseis in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy seems more of a victim in a Stockholm syndrome-type relationship. ...

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