When we first meet Juanita (Alfre Woodard), she’s delivering exposition directly into the camera, breaking the fourth wall to bring the audience into …
The Juniper Tree (4K) Movie Review: A Starkly Dream, Revivified
Among the pantheon of toe-chopping, head-slicing stepmothers in the Brothers Grimm’s fairy-tale canon, few are as starkly cruel and vicious as t…
Captain Marvel Movie Review: She ain’t no Hala-back girl, she’s the MCU’s best
This review contains as few spoilers for Captain Marvel as possible. In October of 2016, a full year and five months before directors Anna Boden …
On Her Way to Captain Marvel: 5 Roles that prove Brie Larson was always a superhero
It has been a long, macho, white male-dominated road to get to this point, but we have finally reached a new age of comic book heroes. I’d like to say…
Furie (Hai Phuong) Movie Review: A Vietnamese bone-crunching visual delight
Hai Phuong hurts people for a living. A debt collector in rural Can Tho, she earns her keep beating up pig farmers and street grocers who mi…
Five Female Superheroes Who Deserve Solo Movies
With Captain Marvel flying into cinemas this weekend, it seems like a good time to mention other superheroines who should get their own movies. The li…
Captain Marvel, Double Standards, and the Pressure Facing Female-Led Films
Captain Marvel marks the first female-led movie within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s a strange thing to write in 2019, especially when the MCU…