What came first human values or religion? It's this chicken and the egg question that Penny Lane's documentary Hail Satan? aims to unpack, focusing on the lack of separation of church and state that has become incredibly evident within American politics. The film follows a campaign from The Satanic Temple to have a statue of …
We often forget that some of the greatest stories in cinema come from real life. The things we do as humans, the lives we lead, the experiences we have, and memories we collect are the basis for the things we turn into film, and by extension art. In When Tomatoes Met Wagner director Marianna Economou …
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Corruption, comedy, and caviar. Nadja, a Russian living in Vienna, is a translator for boorish billionaire oligarch, Igor. When Igor impulsively resolves to build an ostentatious villa on the Danube Canal, he sets out to bribe local officials into redeveloping the area. Meanwhile Nadja, her girlfriend, and her hipster nanny plot to dob them in …
When you exclude women from creating media you are cutting out a significant voice from the very medium that is supposed to reflect who we are as a society. As it stands today, the world population of females is 49%[1]. If we are equal in numbers it would make sense that we should be equal …
It is depressing to see that the 'top 10 greatest Indie films of all time' lists spattered around the internet host a large majority of male directed films. So I decided to make an all-female directed top 10 indie film list to counteract the biased lists you can get everywhere else.
One of the things I love most about having this blog is having a voice. A voice that can not only express frustration and herald a call-to-action, but a voice that can share the work of others and lift those people up into the spotlight. Today I'm using this voice to spread the word about …
Penny Marshall directed A League of Their Own for a release in 1992. The film tells the story of the American women's baseball league that was created to provide entertainment and lift the spirits of people during WWII. It stars Geena Davis and Tom Hanks with Madonna in a supporting role, and I think if …
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My new girl crush is undoubtedly Ava DuVernay. She is such an inspiration to me as an aspiring film director myself and every time I see an interview with her or hear her speak its completely uplifting. But what kind of fan would I be without actually seeing her work. Ava has directed a handful …
The San Diego State University study of Women in Television and Film that came this week discovered that female critics are outnumbered 2 to 1 by their male counterparts [1]. A look into 4111 recent film reviews on popular film criticism site Rotten Tomato's discovered that 68% of those reviews were written by men, 4 …
Last night I followed my own advice and watched a film directed by a woman that wasn't in a stereotypical genre. It was Jodie Fosters Money Monster staring Julia Roberts and George Clooney. The film was a good watch, tackling issues of economic struggle and class systems in the modern age. The tension building and …
