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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...

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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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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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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“I just wanted to prove her wrong”: interview with Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly

Ellie Broughton8 October 2017

Our new contributor Ellie Broughton talks to Lady Macbeth producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly on creating a collaborative environment on set and colour-blind casting...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Not every film about rape is a feminist film

Guest Blogger27 February 2017

Sophie Mayer on why she won't be seeing Elle, Paul Verhoeven's latest film which opens in cinemas soon ...

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#takehername

Sula Mae22 February 2017

Musician Sula Mae encourages us all to support women in music this International Women’s Day...

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Don’t wake me up before you go-go

Sarah Wishart11 January 2017

Sarah Wishart is not impressed with the toxic masculinity storyline of yet another space film, Morten Tyldum’s Passengers...

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Fear does not need to be translated: Mattie Do in conversation

Various Authors27 December 2016

“Final Girls” Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe chat to Mattie Do, first film director to ever direct a horror film in Laos, about ghosts, spirit houses and being a woman director...

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Talking to aliens

Alexandra Orlando24 December 2016

The female professor in Denis Villeneuve’s film about the arrival of aliens makes Alexandra Orlando hopeful for the future...

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Rogue One: Jyn Erso’s Star Wars herstory

Ngaire Ruth21 December 2016

Ngaire Ruth is thrilled about the latest Star Wars instalment, and especially about Jyn Erso, the woman at its heart...

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