A relentless attack on sensibility Jessica White·22 March 2022Jessica White reviews Fernanda Melchor's Paradais, translated by Sophie HughesBooks·0 Comments·1
Dying to Divorce: an interview with director Chloë Fairweather Ellen Thomas·22 December 2021This film isn’t about tragedy, reports Ellen Thomas. It is about fighting. Film & TV·0 Comments·1
Last Night in Soho: a fine line between pastiche and cliché Madeleine Feeny·2 December 2021Edgar Wright’s gory dive into 1960s Soho through a fashionista’s eyes spotlights historic crimes but is overall a blunt instrumentFilm & TV·0 Comments·1
BFI Film Festival: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds Pippa Sterk·29 October 2021Pippa Sterk finds the Chadian drama rich in its exploration of family and body politicsFilm & TV·0 Comments·1
BFI Film Festival: Rehana Madeleine Feeny·21 October 2021Madeleine Feeny reviews the Bangladeshi film about the loneliness of whistleblowing Film & TV·0 Comments·1
Annette: surrealism does not extend to gender roles Ellen Thomas·6 September 2021Ellen Thomas questions why abusive men continue to occupy the spotlightFilm & TV·0 Comments·0
The World to Come: an interview with director Mona Fastvold Alessia Galatini·23 July 2021Does the recent surge in queer films make it any easier for filmmakers wanting to tell LGBTQ stories?Film & TV·0 Comments·0
The interior life like we’ve never seen it before Zoë King·21 February 2021Zoe King explores the visceral and discomforting experience of María Fernanda Ampuero's stories in translation Books·0 Comments·0
How many more promising young women are we willing to sacrifice? Alessia Galatini·2 February 2021The latest release by Emerald Fennell is an exercise in gaslighting that stabs you in the back Film & TV·0 Comments·0
What does gender-based violence look like? Alessia Galatini·29 November 202016 Days 16 Films 2020 tackles the issue of gender-based violence with poignancy but without traumaFilm & TV·0 Comments·0
The implosion of the perfect mother Claudia Hampton·28 April 2020Claudia Hampton unpacks the themes of abuse in season two of Big Little LiesFilm & TV·0 Comments·0
Abuse is the real invisible monster Alessia Galatini·1 March 2020Alessia Galatini is terrified and intrigued by the latest adaptation of The Invisible ManFilm & TV·0 Comments·0
Gender-swapped sexism is not as edgy as it wants to be Jonathan Sanderson·26 February 2020Jonathan Sanderson is disappointed by the failed potential of the Black Christmas rebootFilm & TV·0 Comments·0
Bombshell is heartbreaking old news Ashleigh Riseley·25 February 2020Ashleigh Riseley is moved by Bombshell and its suffocating closeup look into workplace harassmentFilm & TV·0 Comments·0
We need more fucked up fairy tales Alessia Galatini·6 December 2019Alessia Galatini claps along to Mirrah Foulkes’s irreverent narrative in Judy & Punch Film & TV·0 Comments·0
The horrors of colonialism are sung without mercy in The Nightingale Alessia Galatini·30 November 2019Alessia Galatini is disturbed in the best way by how Jennifer Kent takes no prisoners in her latest cinema release Film & TV·0 Comments·0
Overcoming adversity, becoming brilliant Joanna Whitehead·26 October 2015Joanna Whitehead discusses artistic technique, male violence and slut shaming with Una, author of the new graphic novel Becoming, UnbecomingBooksLife·0 Comments·0
Women abusers are part of the picture D H Kelly·7 October 2013D H Kelly looks beyond our traditional cultural model of male-on-female domestic violence and explores how sexism can enable women abusers Life·1 Comment·0