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On the Basis of Sex: when a character is smaller than life

Alessia Galatini26 January 2019

Alessia Galatini feels that Mimi Leder’s biopic of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg does a bit of disservice to its iconic protagonist...

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Three cheers for lesbian filmmakers!

Pippa Sterk15 January 2019

Pippa Sterk reports from the Fringe! Film Fest London screening of Caroline Berler’s Dykes, Camera, Action!...

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The feminist home front

Daniel Dyson8 January 2019

Daniel Dyson provides a missing perspective on The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, drawing our attention to its feminist message...

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The Cry: modern parenting with a twist

Caitlin Warren28 November 2018

Caitlin Warren is gripped by short BBC series The Cry, a thriller that transforms into something much more nuanced...

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The Hate U Give: a shift in cinema?

Pippa Sterk21 November 2018

A bit disappointed that the film lost some of the original novel’s insight and subtlety, Pippa Sterk still praises THUG as evidence that cinema is changing...

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A woman on trial: the toppling of Dilma Rousseff

Thais Nepomuceno14 November 2018

Thais Nepomuceno reviews Maria Augusta Ramos’ documentary about the 2016 impeachment of Brazil’s first woman president...

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Women’s voices at London Korean Film Festival 2018

Guest Blogger24 October 2018

The London Korean Film Festival 2018 team introduces this year’s focus on women directors, including the Women's Voices strand...

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Female Human Animal: embrace the unknown

Sabina Stent1 October 2018

Sabina Stent recommends Josh Appignanesi’s experimental film Female Human Animal as a fitting homage to Surrealist Leonora Carrington’s work...

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The Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival is back!

Guest Blogger30 September 2018

Lucy Smith invites everyone who can make it to Cardiff for the 12th edition of Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival, taking place from 9 to 14 October 2018 ...

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“Growing up I never had a princess that looked like me, now I can get an action doll with cornrows!”: an interview with Letitia Wright

Emily Zinkin18 September 2018

Emily Zinkin got to see Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who plays Wakandan royalty and tech genius Shuri, in interview at London Comicon...

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Forget Insatiable, watch Dietland instead

Becky Kukla4 September 2018

Becky Kukla nominates AMC’s Dietland with Joy Nash in the leading role as the (almost) perfect antidote to fat-shaming TV shows ...

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“Just like Ibiza in the 1990s”: Welcome to Love Island for the over 30s

Emma Kernahan16 August 2018

Emma Kernahan pitches follow-up series to Love Island, full of new hot and exciting contestants...

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When the jokes aren’t funny any more

Molly Greeves27 July 2018

Molly Greeves is glad Hannah Gadsby has raised her voice for the “non-normals”...

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From hashtags to headlines: Woman with a Movie Camera summit

Emily Zinkin19 June 2018

Emily Zinkin reports from British Film Institute’s first-ever summit for professional women in film, who dissected #timesup, performative wokeness, diversity in criticism and the death of the “strong female character” among other things...

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Real to reel: watching second wave activist documentaries

Rosa Campbell12 June 2018

Rosa Campbell reports from Artists & Activists: Second Wave Feminist Filmmakers, the mini festival of feminist documentaries from the 1970s and 1980s held recently at the Barbican Centre...

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