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Hell Is Older People: Aging as the Ultimate Cinematic Horror
Unlike horror-movie fates such as, say, decapitation by paper cutter, aging is the ultimate fright because viewers recognize that they cannot escape it.
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Uneasy Spirits: Black Vengeance in Supernatural Pop Culture
There’s a specter in our midst, and it’s white people’s projection of their own guilt and fear onto the Black search for justice.
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Girl Watchers: The Uneasy Female Gaze of “Black Conflux” and “The Other Lamb”
Two new films challenge sexist coming-of-age tales where teen girls are master manipulators.
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Transmitting Culture: A New Slate of Films Serve as Love Letters to Korean American Mothers
Always Be My Maybe, Searching, and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before depict Asian American mothers as worthy of the same care, sympathy, and compassion that they bestow on their children, family, and friends.
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“Hustlers” Explodes the Damaging Stereotype of Sex Workers as Thieves
The prevalent trope feeds the idea that sex workers are criminals instead of professionals who deserve to be compensated for their labor.
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Family Ties: “Hustlers” Promises Crime, but Delivers Matriarchy
Ramona frames all of her behaviors as acts of love, whether she’s teaching Destiny how to diversify her stripping moves or instructing the larger team of women on how to seduce, drug, and steal money from white, wealthy, and unsuspecting men.
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BitchWatch: 7 Movies Feminists Should Watch This Fall
This fall, we’re anticipating movies about women astronauts, another Charlie’s Angels reboot, and a thriller all about socioeconomic class.
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Burning Issue: “Embrace of the Serpent“ Sees Capitalist Destruction through Indigenous Eyes
The film subverts a colonialist narrative by presenting the experience of a white man on Amazon land—not through his eyes, but through those of the people he’s exploiting.
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Blood Sport: The Most Feminist Part of “IT Chapter Two” Is a Staple in Horror
There’s one genre that has never shied away from depicting menstruation: horror.
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Ashes to Ashes, Outer space to Oceans: Who Gets to Have an Alternative Death in America?
Many of the faces of “alternative death” are white, and there’s much less engagement with the cultural, community, and social traditions of communities of diverse color and faith in America.
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