
‘Nomadland’ is Poetry in Motion Pictures; Lyrical Yet A Little Too Tranquil
Oscar’s Best Picture favorite “Nomadland” (2020) starts with a nod to John Ford’s iconic opening shot from “The Searcher…
Oscar’s Best Picture favorite “Nomadland” (2020) starts with a nod to John Ford’s iconic opening shot from “The Searcher…
Oscar nominations are in! And, unlike last year’s shameful shutout of exquisite works by women writer/directors, from La…
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Fifty percent of the population. Give or take, that's how many women there are in the world, women who work, rai…
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Feminist romance readers are well aware of many of the common issues with the genre: fatphobia, heroines that are so oft…
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If I love you, if I’m trying to keep you around in my life, then there’s a good chance I’ve dragged you into a comic boo…
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Man, you're picky. That's not always a bad thing, either. You know what you want so you choose deliberately, carefull…
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How far would you go for love? In Lili Horvát’s “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” (2020), the …
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Despite her detached and deadpan deliveries, there is a rage brewing within the titular heroine of “Promising Young Woma…
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You try and you try and you try. Everybody else makes things look easy. They seem to do everything effortlessly, leav…
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Part of the pleasure aspect of “pleasure reads” is their ability to help us escape. Escape the tedium and heaviness of o…