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A group of women getting ready to board an airplane. They are dressed in a variety of styles, from glamorous to casual, and have a range of body types, appearances, and facial expressions. At the front of the pack is Melissa McCarthy's "Megan" and Rose Byrne's "Helen". The rest of the film's ensemble cast of women can be seen trailing behind them.

Always a Bridesmaid and Never a Bride, Until Now: How ‘Bridesmaids’ (2011) Allowed Women to Take the Front Seat in Comedies

By: mmstein 25th Nov 202125th Nov 2021

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“Aside from being groundbreaking and hilarious, there is a lot to ‘Bridesmaids’ that often goes unappreciated.”

‘Solaris’ (2002) is a Romantic Sci-Fi Film That Needs Revisiting

By: Ceridwen Millington 23rd Nov 202121st Nov 2021

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“A movie that is refreshingly and sincerely romantic, marking a dramatic contrast not just to the great bulk of science fiction, but with modern mainstream cinema at large.” Science fiction is making waves once again. With the arguably unexpected success of Dune, a weighty space opera that offers complex lore, audiences may be primed for…

Doug is engaged in performance, a white cloth strung across his bare chest and figures draped in blue holding another white cloth above his head

REVIEW: ‘I’m An Electric Lampshade’ (2021) Has A Weak Spark of Life

By: Ceridwen Millington 15th Nov 202115th Nov 2021

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This tale of accountant-turned-artist is never clearly docudrama or pure fiction, making for a bizarre watch.

REVIEW : The Unsuspected Hero of ‘The Courier’ (2020)

By: carolinehvd 11th Nov 202110th Nov 2021

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‘The Courier’ is a tense, well-orchestrated spy movie. As a veil of secrecy and anticipation, heightened by mutual threats from both USSR and United States, bears over humanity at the dawn of the Cold War, Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) is recruited by MI6 to spy on the opposing force. Greville had this far worked as…

Therese Shechter, a middle-aged white woman with short curly blonde hair, stands in front of some streamers. She looks at the camera and smiles. Her lips are closed and her arms are crossed, and she wears a long-sleeved black top.

INTERVIEW: Therese Shechter on The Institution of Motherhood in ‘My So-Called Selfish Life’ (2021)

By: Gala Woolley 6th Nov 20216th Nov 2021

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In her paradigm-shifting documentary, feminist filmmaker Therese Shechter explores the lives of childfree women, and examines motherhood as an ingrained societal institution.

Three Asian men and an Asian woman giving an unsettling smile while their clothes are bloodied.

BHFF REVIEW: ‘The Sadness’ (2021) Is Tear-Jerkingly Depraved

By: Tyler Simeone 3rd Nov 20213rd Nov 2021

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“In ‘The Sadness’ the fear is not—as Hitchcock might have asserted—what is unseen, but what can be endured.”

Three women who are tied to wooden stakes while wearing revealing outfits. They are seen from a distance, with figures surrounding them and brandishing torches.

BHFF Review: As ‘Lux Æterna’ (2019) Proves, Bonfires Are So Sexy

By: Tyler Simeone 31st Oct 202131st Oct 2021

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“‘Lux Æterna’ associates the cinematic regard with the spectacle of a witch burning, gobbling up misogynistic entertainment at the expense of another’s pain.”

A close-up shot of a Black woman, who holds up two fingers. Her head is turned to the side, eyes looking over to the right. She stands in front of a curtain.

BHFF Review: In ‘Good Madam’ (2021), Fear Lives In the Fingertips

By: Tyler Simeone 30th Oct 202129th Oct 2021

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“Taking up the mantle of other bright stars of the creepy-old-lady-upstairs subsection of the genre, ‘Good Madam’ offers an interesting take on horror that passes, first and foremost, through the hands.”

‘Requiem For A Dream’ Doesn’t Haunt Like ‘Last Exit To Brooklyn’

By: Ceridwen Millington 29th Oct 202129th Oct 2021

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“The fear here is the much more threatening notion that society is more dangerous than we realise; that we’re trapped amidst its expectations and oppression no matter our intentions.”

A young woman with cropped dark hair wearing a green, blue, and yellow plaid top. She sits at a desk in front of a window, and appears to be intently engaged in what she is reading, eyes focused downward.

LFF REVIEW: ‘The Souvenir: Part II’ (2021) an Exquisite End to Hogg’s Memoir

By: Joel Whitaker 28th Oct 202128th Oct 2021

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‘The Souvenir Part II’ takes off from exactly where Part I left us, and gives us a beautifully cyclical inverse to the story.