‘Strong Female Protagonist’ Gives Us a Different Kind of Hero

Ellie BerrySeptember 30, 2017

“There isn’t a Sauron or Voldemort figure of ultimate evil…the world is more confused than that.” I love this quote. It’s from Lev Grossman, the author of the M...

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‘Wonder Woman’ and Fighting for Those Who Cannot Fight for Themselves

Angeli PinedaSeptember 28, 2017

I have a vivid memory of watching Justice League on Sunday mornings, wedged somewhere between Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, and th...

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Being Your Hero’s Hero: Boaz Yakin’s ‘Uptown Girls’

Emily BartonSeptember 26, 2017

Personally, my favourite part of Boaz Yakin’s 2003 film Uptown Girls is that Billy Joel never plays. I’m joking, really. This film was tremendously important to...

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Sidekicking Ass: Finding My Hero in the Plucky Best Friend

Addison PeacockSeptember 21, 2017

The late 90s-early 2000s were, in many ways, a golden age of television for young women. After an oversaturated market of male power fantasies in the form of su...

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Star Girl: Why Rey from ‘The Force Awakens’ is My Hero

Kate GardnerSeptember 19, 2017

I was five years old when Star Wars first came barreling into my life. The year was 1999, and everywhere you went, there were ads and products for Star Wars Epi...

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‘The Princess Diaries’ and Life in Perpetual Forward Motion

Ann FosterSeptember 14, 2017

Towards the end of 2001’s The Princess Diaries, Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) reads a letter from her late father. He explains — knowing he’s going to die, th...

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This Baby Drove Himself Into A Corner

Emma KentSeptember 12, 2017

Good artists copy, great artists steal, and Edgar Wright satirizes… well he used to, anyway. He became one of this century’s most prolific directors by skewerin...

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“Their Bodies Are Not Yours”: ‘Broadchurch’ and Sexual Assault

Claire GraySeptember 7, 2017

The police procedural will forever be a safe genre for television. No matter what show you look at, lawyers and the police will always be the heroes enforcing m...

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Why I Finally Found a Hero in Eleven from ‘Stranger Things’

Paige ConradSeptember 5, 2017

Detectives. The Upside Down. Eggos. For folks who enjoy Netflix originals or have an itch for sci-fi, any talk of Eggos these days will make them think of sci-f...

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Editor’s Note: Heroes

Sydney UrbanekSeptember 2, 2017

I recently polled some established film and culture writers about what they feel they would have benefitted from while starting out in their careers. A few expr...

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