Richard Widmark confronts Sidney Poitier in No Way Out (1950) In a February 2022 conversation on films about racism, an influential...

(More) women must swim against the anti-women tide - will they? Who led this "fight"? "More than 465 women...." [The Hollywood Reporter,...

Director Mervyn Le Roy and producer Sam Zimbalist's hugely ambitious Quo Vadis (1951) must rank as one of the most multinational movie...

An increasing number of people believe Yuval Noah Harari will save mankind from committing intellectual Harakiri (suicide by...

Fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting - The Tree of Knowledge, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari An increasing number of people...

Ingrid Bergman One of the greatest film historians and writers Molly Haskell celebrates women and make-up in her delightful chapter...

Will Bill Cosby’s controversial release this week further encourage women to not file charges against sexual criminals? Yes. Should it be...

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...

Canada-based comedian and podcast host Mark Hughes’s fascinating interview with the inimitable Samantha Jane Geimer deserves to be...

So few writers spot commercially exploitative nudity, graphic sex, explicit sexual violence & objectification of #womeninfilm. Fewer...

North Country (2005) one of Hollywood’s most rousing statements on sexual harassment in the workplace, is now on Netflix. Is the movie a...

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...

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky There is no sadder misreading of life...

Can dysfunctional women protagonists in fiction serve feminism, no matter what? You’d think so if you read Ellena Savage’s piece Selfish,...

Here’s a theory: most men sing about.........er, women. Theory refined: most 20th century popular male vocalists, songwriters (Pop,...

A song (or a movie) is only as long as it should be. Right? Not really, it turns out. On 5 Oct 2019 a piece in the The Economist warned...

Spoilers ahead! My favorite Hollywood movie scenes, in no particular order Letting Go – The Mission (1986): One of the most powerful...