Cate Young
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Why Brendan Fraser Wore a Fat Suit in 'The Whale' and Why It's Time to Get Rid of Them for Good
I love Emma Thompson and Brendan Fraser too but why do actors receive critical acclaim for doing a crude, cruel imitation of fat people's experiences? → Read More
Promising Young Woman Needs More Murder
The only way to understand Promising Young Woman is to skip right to the ending. The film’s mashup of soft-feminine romance with trauma marked by vengeful spite makes for a delicious combination of tonal confusion. There is a lot happening in director Emerald Fennell’s audacious debut and the landscape she builds incorporates many of the messy messages (and backlash) of the MeToo movement, with… → Read More
Happiest Season Is (Almost) the Queer Christmas Romcom We Deserve
Girls and gays rejoice! Director Clea Duvall has brought us a queer holiday classic of our very own. Happiest Season— premiering November 25 on Hulu—stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as the lesbian couple your dreams, as they navigate the vagaries of being back home for the holidays. In the film, Abby (Stewart) is blindsided when— after inviting her home to meet her family— her… → Read More
Remembering Chadwick Boseman, a Champion of Cultural Representation
Popular media is a feedback loop that both tells us how to exist in the world and reinforces what we believe is possible. → Read More
Yes, God, Yes Wants to End Sexual Shame
It’s never been a secret that religion and healthy relationships to sexuality are usually at opposite ends of a very unnecessary binary. But Yes, God, Yes, the directorial debut of Obvious Child writer Karen Maine, gets at why sex-negative religious instruction is so harmful to developing teens, and how it hurts teen girls especially. Her conclusion? Catholic school is hell on earth. → Read More
Memes Are Robbing Breonna Taylor of Her Story
If you believe what you read on the internet, it’s a beautiful day to arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor. → Read More
Consent Is Multi-Layered in Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You
It might be impossible to name all the ways in which consent is routinely violated. Michaela Coel, however—creator of the witty breakout series Chewing Gum—is back with the new HBO series I May Destroy You, and is trying to do just that. → Read More
Insecure's Season 4 Excelled at the Language of Broken Friendships
There’s a very specific primacy and intimacy to female friendships, and nowhere is that more clear than on television. Whether it’s Abby and Ilana on Broad City, Meredith and Cristina on Grey’s Anatomy, or Kat, Sutton and Jane on The Bold Type, television shows are full to the brim with female friendships that shape and mold their participants, helping the women within them become their best… → Read More
A Wrinkle in White Supremacy
There’s no reprieve from injustice. → Read More
In BlackAF, Kenya Barris Only Has Love for White People
Kenya Barris just might be the best confidence man in Hollywood. With the debut of his first Netflix show BlackAF, Barris has managed to earn millions more dollars quadruple-dipping into his limited storytelling well. But after the fourth time around the playground, it seems he’s running out of steam. → Read More
Swallow Considers the Tragedy of the Trophy Wife
Spoilers ahead. → Read More
Feminism Means Survival on Good Girls
“Ain’t bitches supposed to be like, lifting each other up these days?” → Read More
Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey Is a Fun, Demented Carnival Ride
Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, Margot Robbie’s unexpected superhero vehicle, is chaotic in all the best ways. The movie is full to the brim with color and neon and sparkles and is largely guided by the dizzying, frenetic energy of Harley Quinn herself. Harley’s outfits and makeup, styled significantly differently from her first appearance in Suicide Squad, speak to a woman who is no longer trying… → Read More
Janicza Bravo's Zola Is a Triumph in More Ways Than One
This post contains minor plot spoilers and is based on a screening of Zola at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. A24 has not yet set a release date. → Read More
Resistance Is Futile in The Assistant
When it comes down to it, The Assistant is a movie about silence. Directed by Kitty Green, the film follows Jane (Julia Garner) from the beginning to the end of one difficult workday as the assistant to an abusive film executive. It’s hard to say if it’s a particularly difficult day, though, because part of what the film tries to convey is that all of Jane’s days are like this: a series of… → Read More
Cord Jefferson Finds a (Good) Place for Pop Culture Optimism
In 2016, Michael Schur’s “The Good Place” started as another quirky NBC comedy that then blossomed into a bona fide cultural phenomenon. → Read More
Beanie Feldstein Finds the Sweet Spot of Nerdy Teen Girlhood
This post contains minor plot spoilers and is based on a screening of How to Build a Girl at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. No release date is set. → Read More
Hustlers Makes Class War Fun
What would you do if you had no transferable skills, bills to pay, mouths to feed and you faced one of the largest economic collapses in history? For the women of Hustlers, the answer was simple: target the men who screwed the country and bilk them for everything they’re worth. In the new film, led by Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez, we finally get a Wolf of Wall Street we can actually root for. → Read More
Vita and Virginia Belabors Queer Romance
Historical queer romances are having a moment. From 2018’s Colette to HBO’s Gentleman Jack, women who loved women in the 19th century are being recognized as the LGBTQ pioneers that they were. Chanya Button’s Vita and Virginia is another entry in this canon’s ongoing creation, but aside from its focus on the affair of its central protagonists, the film doesn’t quite capture the same intensely… → Read More
Euphoria's Season 1 Was Equal Parts Fantasy and Condemnation
Nothing has triggered my maternal instinct quite like watching HBO’s Euphoria. The show’s first season, which concluded Sunday night, began with graphic depictions of teen sex and drug use that reminded me just how prudish my sensibilities remain. But once the smoke cleared on the initial shock value of the content, what emerged was a touching and studied story about addiction, codependence, and… → Read More