“Film Fatale: A Starter Pack of Twenty Noir Features directed by Women”
At Letterboxd, Marya E. Gates shares 20 noir featured directed by women for your Noirvember viewing pleasure. See the list here.
Just One More Thing… Or Two or Three: Some Thoughts on The Residence, Elsbeth, and Poker Face
Sometimes you just want to watch a quirky investigator irritate people—especially wealthy and powerful people—into revealing they’ve committed crimes. Especially murder. I’ve been enjoying some new and new-ish mysteries lately, Poker Face, Elsbeth and The Residence. All three feature women investigating murders. All are series produced after Rian […]
Autostraddle’s Top 100 Lesbian Films of All Time!
Sure, this list is about a year old, but there’s still 100 fine Lesbian and Bisexual films from all genres for you peruse. See it here.
Fréwaka: Never Go Through The Red Door
There is nothing charming about the red fairy door we encounter in Aislinn Clark’s Irish language horror film, Fréwaka (Ireland, 2024).* Its fairy tree is old and hung with scissors and bones. And there is nothing safe about the Good Folk attracted to the house with the fairy door in it.
“The Greatest Women Filmmakers Are Mad For A Reason”
At Autostraddle, Steff Rubino interviews Marya E. Gates about her new book, Cinema Her Way. It’s a great interview and if you are interested in film and film writing, you should probably read it! “I did make a concerted effort to make sure that I had women from […]
“The Substance is a Documentary”
At Film International, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas writes about The Substance (2024): “I live a very different life from Elisabeth Sparkle and–for that matter–from Demi Moore. But despite the fantastic excesses of Coralie Fargeat’s slick cinema du look body horror, in many ways I don’t think I have ever felt […]
The Cultural Gutter 