52FilmsbyWomen 2018: Everything, Everything [Column]

Film writer AJ Caulfield has taken the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, where she will watch one movie directed by a women per week throughout 2018. Here on The Young Folks, AJ reflects on the films she’s viewed — including female-directed classics and…

52FilmsbyWomen 2018: Monsoon Wedding [Column]

Film writer AJ Caulfield has taken the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, where she will watch one movie directed by a women per week throughout 2018. Here on The Young Folks, AJ reflects on the films she’s viewed — including female-directed classics and…

52FilmsbyWomen 2018: American Honey [Column]

Film writer AJ Caulfield has taken the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, where she will watch one movie directed by a women per week throughout 2018. Here on The Young Folks, AJ reflects on the films she’s viewed — including female-directed classics and…

52FilmsbyWomen 2018: The Kids Are All Right [Column]

Film writer AJ Caulfield has taken the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, where she will watch one movie directed by a women per week throughout 2018. Here on The Young Folks, AJ reflects on the films she’s viewed — including female-directed classics and new-to-the-scene…

#52FilmsByWomen: Join the Project!

Just in case you haven’t already heard about it, there’s a project currently taking place on Twitter called #52FilmsByWomen where you  pledge to watch one film a week directed by a woman. That’s not too tough of a challenge in a media landscape where…

The 60 best LGBTQ+ films of the 21st Century so far

While Queer films have been in existence for the entirety of cinema (here’s a great article about some of the earliest examples at the Nerdist), there’s certainly been a notable—or perhaps, simply more highlighted—boom in LGBTQ+ storytelling in the 21st…

Women & Horror: Bodies, power and taboo in Claire Denis’ ‘High Life’

One of the opening scenes in Claire Denis’ High Life shows the main character, Monte (Robert Pattinson), baby-talking the word “taboo” to his baby daughter, Willow (Scarlett Lindsey). They are alone on a spaceship, and the scene is initiated by Monte’s discussion of how people do not eat their own body waste.