Month: September 2021

Mayday is a Feminist Fever Dream Whose Messages and Performances Outpace Its Overall Quality (Sundance Film Festival)

Navigating a sometimes hostile world on the basis of sex can be a treacherous terrain for many young women. From an early age, many are forced to make choices as to how they’ll handle such hostility, with the…

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Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield are Empathetic and Brilliant in The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Americans of a certain age are undoubtedly familiar with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. The infamous televangelists created a vast television empire based around their folksy, midwestern evangelicalism and Tammy Faye’s loud, multicolored appearance. These same Americans also…

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Wild Indian Examines the Cycles of Violence and Trauma (Sundance Film Festival)

The one person you can never truly run from is yourself. Though many people have tried, our issues and past are always with us just as our shadows are. Wild Indian, a new debut feature film from indigenous…

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