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Reviews
‘Paterson’: Indie quirks can’t hide masculinist frameworks
Beneath its quiet indie surface, venerated U.S. filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s new film Paterson relies on so many clichés …
Why Jessa Crispin really isn’t a feminist
I just finished reading Jessa Crispin’s much-talked about new book and wonder if I’m the only one who did. With several …
Whether it’s prostitution or the Holocaust, deniers are all the same
Alison Bechdel, get thee to a cinema now! Here is a film that not only passes your revolutionary test with flying colour…
‘The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men’ forces liberals and the left towards accountability to women
Now far in the rear view mirror, the (Bill) Clinton years seem like a turning point for contemporary social movement str…
These violent delights have violent ends: Westworld brings porn culture to life
In contrast to the starry-eyed sci-fi of previous decades, wherein humans seek Artificial Intelligence in order to solve…
‘Sugar Sisters’ exemplifies the failures of third wave feminism
A CBC documentary called Sugar Sisters: Confessions of a Sugar Baby aired on Thursday. The film claims to “explore…
Lisa Ling endorses legalized prostitution on CNN’s ‘This Is Life’
Sunday night’s “This Is Life” episode boldly went where many of gone before: to the legal brothels of …
Andi Zeisler’s ‘We Were Feminists Once’ coopts the very movement it purports to mourn
In 1995, Andi Zeisler founded Bitch — a zine that became a magazine — as a means to “take pop culture …
‘The Sex Trade’ reveals Montreal as a hub for prostitution
Is Montreal Canada’s Las Vegas? A film by Ève Lamont called The Sex Trade (Le commerce du sexe) reveals that the s…
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt takes on women’s trauma and healing
Finally, a comedy series about REAL woman-problems… Like PTSD! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a Netflix original serie…
League of Exotic Dancers demonstrates limitations of female ’empowerment’
The most notable thing about League of Exotic Dancers, a Canadian documentary opening Hot Docs on Thursday night …
Carol shows us a secret world of women… minus the male gaze
Aside from being a cool drink of female perspective in the scorched desert of male-dominated American cinema, the adapta…
Misogyny gone viral: A Review of Karla Mantilla’s Gendertrolling
In the pre-social media years of free-AOL-hours CDs, chat rooms, and email, I felt like the Internet held so much potent…
Some of our movie-favourites from 2015
Susan and Meghan tag-teamed our 2015 movie picks this year in order to give you a well-rounded selection, but be sure to…