Orla Smith discusses why Lupita Nyong'o's performance in Us is one of her favourites by an actress in a horror film. Explore our coverage of Women in Horror …
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Orla Smith discusses why Lupita Nyong'o's performance in Us is one of her favourites by an actress in a horror film. Explore our coverage of Women in Horror …
[Read more...] about Lupita Nyong’o in Us (Great horror performances #3)
In this excerpt from her essay on Claire Foy's career, which features in our feminist horror ebook Beyond Empowertainment, Alex Heeney discusses the many masks …
[Read more...] about Claire Foy in Unsane (Great horror performances #2)
Lena Wilson discusses why Isabelle Adjani's performance in Possession is one of her favourites by an actress in a horror film. Explore our coverage of Women in …
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Rather than positioning Les Misérables and Just Mercy as retellings, Ladj Ly and Destin Daniel Cretton engage with modern France’s and America's relationships …
[Read more...] about Les Misérables and Just Mercy use classic texts to explore systemic racism
Noémie Merlant shines as a woman in love with a fairground ride, but Jumbo lacks psychological insight into the real phenomenon of Objectum Sexuality. Jumbo is …
[Read more...] about Sundance ’20 review: Jumbo and Objectum Sexuality
In Raw and We Are What We Are, cannibalism is used as a metaphor to explore what it is to be a woman living under patriarchy, in both the macro and the micro. …