What do you do when you check a goal off your list? You celebrate, yes? You feel accomplished, of course. You’re proud, certainly. You bask in those feelings, ...
Sometimes you watch a film and it stays with you. Fragments and feelings drift in and out of your mind, unexpectedly catching you off guard. I first saw Cate S...
In October, Bradley Cooper released his passion project, a fourth remake of A Star is Born. I have seen the film twice and enjoyed it; it was one of my most-an...
Horror is often thought of as an exploitative genre, one that thrives on abject female bodies, a perverse male gaze, and deranged killers. For much of horror f...
Among the abundance of lesbian films that
were released in 2018, The Favourite,
from eccentric director Yorgos Lanthimos, was easily the most drooled-over. His...
I was first introduced to When Harry Met Sally when I was nine years old. I always knew that it was my mother’s favorite movie, but it existed as a sort of eni...
The trick to making history come alive is to make the audience forget that they know how something’s going to end. The first film to adapt the life of Mary, Qu...
When Alfonso Cuarón went onstage to accept his two Golden
Globes—for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director—for ROMA, I couldn’t help but think of the
li...
We all carry within us fixations
with certain ideas, things, and people that shape our tastes and who we are. These
fixations can sometimes transform into obse...
Nasty woman (epithet): A woman who intimidates men by simply existing. A woman who does not fit the restrictions set for them by men. A woman who is more than ...
