The intersection of filmdom and feminism
Josephine Decker’s gorgeous new film Shirley opens with Rose (Odessa Young) reading Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” on a train to Bennington, Vermont. As the story concludes, a small,
In 2016, not long before Trump’s election, film criticism had a proto-MeToo era reckoning of their own. Devin Faraci, one of the founding online critics and the editor-in-chief of Birth.
To hear many male critics tell it, lesbians were invented sometime in the 1970s, alongside women’s rights and the clitoris. The aggressively ahistorical nature of this attitude (and we all
When you imprison a person, you’re imprisoning more than just that person. This is the undercurrent of director Nicole Jones’s debut documentary The Third Strike, which follows The Decarceration Collective,
The tales of somewhat deluded real-life antiheroes have always been popular, but perhaps never more so than right now, as Tiger King continues to produce memes and fans and jokes
