‘Zola’ review: A Twitter sensation turns into a big-screen movie sensation

In 2015, Aziah “Zola” King’s 148-tweet epic took the internet by storm. The viral thread read like a Jack Kerouac novel and captured people’s attentions with every 165 characters. When it was announced that it would be made into a…

Movie review: ‘Promising Young Woman’ turns into the genre it’s trying to critique

Content warning: This article mentions rape and discusses disturbing subject matter. One of the most tired narratives in cinema is the rape-revenge story. Films like I Spit on Your Grave and The Last House on the Left are infamous for their brutal rape scenes…

Movie Review: Emma. Is the Most Vibrant Jane Austen Adaptation Yet

Before writing her fourth novel, Emma, Jane Austen already knew that not many people would take a liking to her titular character, a rich young woman who “had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex…

Hustlers Movie Review: Here is the best love story of 2019

Women are taking 2019 by storm, both behind and in front of the camera. Aquakwina expanded her dramatic range in Lulu Wang’s The Farewell; Kaitlyn Denver and Beanie Feldstein busted their comedic chops in Olivia Smart’s Booksmart; now, Lorene Scafaria’s…

Private Life Movie Review: Charming but tedious in execution

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is rarely discussed because critics don’t regard it as a “natural birth.” You either conceive your own child or adopt, but god forbid anyone injects shots and meds in their ass to increase their chances of…

It’s Time to Retire the Term “Chick Flick”

As women, we have been conditioned to embrace, but also be ashamed of the term “chick flick.” Films that are supposedly made specifically for the female population but have a stigma attached to it, they’re associated with cheesy romances, melodramas,…

52FilmsbyWomen 2018: The 10 Best Films I’ve Seen This Year [Column]

At the start of 2018, I took the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, vowing to watch one movie directed by a woman per week throughout 2018 — both female-directed flicks that have now become classics in the canon and amongst critics, and new…