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Truth, justice, Wonder Woman and wishful thinking

Ellie Wilson2 November 2017

Ellie Wilson explores whether Professor Marston and the Wonder Women takes too many liberties with the truth to represent real progress for polyamory on film...

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In defence of Strictly

D H Kelly28 September 2017

D H Kelly considers the heteronormativity of Strictly Come Dancing and explores how to overhaul the gender norms it promotes...

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Living in between

M. Ly-Eliot26 September 2017

M. Lý-Eliot recommends Maysaloun Hamoud’s In Between, the Arab-Israeli director’s controversial first feature about young Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv...

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How do you measure the distance of reasonable fear?

Ania Ostrowska18 September 2017

Ania Ostrowska talks to American documentarian Yance Ford about his powerful debut Strong Island, available on Netflix...

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A terrifyingly tangible future

Becky Kukla13 July 2017

Despite some changes to her beloved novel, Becky Kukla thinks the serial adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is looking great...

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Wonder Woman wouldn’t fight for the IDF

Andrea Marks-Joseph12 July 2017

Andrea Marks-Joseph responds to the mainstream feminist movement's reaction to the 2017 Wonder Woman film...

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Women make documentaries! Sheffield Doc/Fest roundup

Ania Ostrowska1 July 2017

Ania Ostrowska is still slightly intoxicated with the abundance and diversity of women-made documentaries at this year’s Sheffield International Documentary Festival...

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Anne with an E tells the trauma of adoption like it is

Alessia Galatini21 June 2017

Alessia Galatini watches Netflix’s recent adaptation of L.M Montgomery’s 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables and finds it takes a stand on what it means to be a good parent...

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No man’s land belongs to women

Becky Kukla11 June 2017

Becky Kukla enjoys Wonder Woman so much that she cannot wait to see more superhero films directed by women ...

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Law, love and the era of the alt-right

Becky Kukla7 June 2017

Becky Kukla is impressed with how The Good Fight tackles issues in the current political climate ...

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A rather tame riot

Cath Murray6 June 2017

Cath Murray is slightly disappointed with the slow burning fifth season of the iconic Netflix prison drama, Orange is the New Black...

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The secret lives of white middle class America

Nick Beard24 May 2017

Nick Beard is impressed with the nuanced way in which Big Little Lies deals with domestic violence and the emotional aftermath of rape...

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Femininity, sexuality and technicolour magic

Becky Kukla17 May 2017

Becky Kukla thinks that The Love Witch’s kitsch and technicolour style and insightful view of sexuality, feminism and gender in our world today make the film an instant classic...

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13 Reasons Why Hannah Baker could have been me – and how the series lets us both down

Caitlin Logan9 May 2017

This Mental Health Awareness Week, Caitlin Logan makes the case for better mental health representation on our screens ...

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Be careful what you eat

Ngaire Ruth24 April 2017

Ngaire Ruth finds a great many old tropes under the fresh blood of Raw, Julia Ducournau’s debut feature...

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The ‘firsts’ are often hidden

Alessia Galatini10 April 2017

Alessia Galatini is impressed with how the intersections of race and gender are explored in Hidden Figures...

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All singing, all dancing, all rather toxic

D H Kelly25 March 2017

D H Kelly enjoys the brilliant comic songs in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend but is disappointed by the show’s treatment of mental ill health and its reliance on toxic heteronormative romantic messages...

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Savour the detail

Sarah Wishart21 March 2017

Sarah Wishart could have watched the characters in Kelly Reichardt's latest film Certain Women all night long...

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