Viola Davis (and Variety) shouldn't have allowed Jennifer Lawrence to undermine women action leads
Brigitte Nielsen, Red Sonja, 1985 Variety’s recent piece is titled Jennifer Lawrence and Viola Davis Get Honest About Female Action...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Nov 11, 2022
- 2 min
Climate activism going wrong: undermining Art, to make a point?
Vandalism of art by activists isn’t new. But in 2022, climate activists have taken their activism to new highs by plumbing, well, new...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Sep 17, 2022
- 2 min
A River Runs Through It: grace comes by art and art does not come easy
2022 marks the 120th birth anniversary of American writer Norman Maclean (his novella, A River Runs Through It, was nominated for the...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Feb 21, 2022
- 9 min
Racism in movies - seeing and seeing beyond Black & White
Richard Widmark confronts Sidney Poitier in No Way Out (1950) In a February 2022 conversation on films about racism, an influential...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Oct 29, 2021
- 3 min
Quo Vadis (1951) - the 70th Anniversary
Director Mervyn Le Roy and producer Sam Zimbalist's hugely ambitious Quo Vadis (1951) must rank as one of the most multinational movie...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Aug 26, 2021
- 8 min
Homo Sapiens, Harari (& Harakiri) - Part 2
An increasing number of people believe Yuval Noah Harari will save mankind from committing intellectual Harakiri (suicide by...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Aug 26, 2021
- 10 min
Homo Sapiens, Harari (& Harakiri) - Part 1
Fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting - The Tree of Knowledge, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari An increasing number of people...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Jul 5, 2021
- 2 min
Women & make-up: "we are artists of ourselves"
Ingrid Bergman One of the greatest film historians and writers Molly Haskell celebrates women and make-up in her delightful chapter...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- May 31, 2021
- 7 min
Gen Z boys don’t hate girls, but...
Hannah Rose Ewens’s piece Young, Male and Anti-Feminist – The Gen Z Boys Who Hate Women and Ruby Lott-Lavigna’s piece Feminism Has ‘Gone...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min
Naked truths about Hollywood
So few writers spot commercially exploitative nudity, graphic sex, explicit sexual violence & objectification of #womeninfilm. Fewer...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Nov 29, 2020
- 9 min
WONDER WOMAN
Good fun? Or feminist food for thought? Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman - inspired casting Is Wonder Woman meant to be good, clean fun or an...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Aug 24, 2020
- 16 min
On love and loving
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky There is no sadder misreading of life...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Jul 4, 2020
- 9 min
My kind of woman
Can dysfunctional women protagonists in fiction serve feminism, no matter what? You’d think so if you read Ellena Savage’s piece Selfish,...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Nov 25, 2018
- 5 min
Robert De Niro as priest
Spoilers ahead! My favorite Hollywood movie scenes, in no particular order Letting Go – The Mission (1986): One of the most powerful...
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