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Rising Up: Female Actors Taking Positions Of Power
Rising Up: Female Actors Taking Positions Of Power

In the middle of the sexual abuse scandal in Hollywood, we highlight the actors who were amidst it all and others who are rising to more power.

Dinner With Dames #12, With Osnat Shurer (Recap)
Dinner With Dames #12, With Osnat Shurer (Recap)

Dinner with Dames Case File Who: Osnat Shurer, producer of Moana, & Cinefemme board, fiscal…

The Female Body In Film: Rethinking What's Normal
The Female Body In Film: Rethinking What’s Normal

The female body has often been sexualized in mainstream film. It’s time we become aware of how it affects the way we think about women.

Staff Inquiry: It's Good To Be Bad - Our Favorite Villains
Staff Inquiry: It’s Good To Be Bad – Our Favorite Villains

They are the scoundrels, the miscreants, the agents of chaos, and you can’t keep your eyes off them: these are our favorite villains!

Films That Changed The Way We Thought About Actors

Actors often become typecast in certain roles, but here are some performances where they took a chance to do something remarkable instead.

"The Leadership Is As Corrupt As They Come": An Interview With WHAT HAPPENED IN VEGAS Director Ramsey Denison
“The Leadership Is As Corrupt As They Come”: An Interview With WHAT HAPPENED IN VEGAS Director Ramsey Denison

Musanna Ahmed spoke with Ramsey Denison, director of documentary WHAT HAPPENED IN VEGAS, about police corruption and filmmaking.

Why Louis Bloom Was Destined To Succeed In NIGHTCRAWLER
Why Louis Bloom Was Destined To Succeed In NIGHTCRAWLER

Nightcrawler’s Louis Bloom is worthy of our criticism, but it is also easy to overlook how flawed his colleagues (and viewers) truly are.

The Dark Knight or the Dark Shite? Batman & Robin gets the Take Two Treatment
The Dark Knight Or The Dark Shite? BATMAN & ROBIN Gets The Take Two Treatment

In the latest of our Take Two series, we reexamine Batman & Robin, the sequel we watched so you don’t have to.

We Can’t Blame Audiences For BLADE RUNNER 2049’s Failure

Blade Runner 2049 may be acclaimed by critics and cinephiles alike, but why did the general audience fail to love it as much?

The Art Of Turning Places Into Characters
The Art Of Turning Places Into Characters

Settings are often so integral to a film that they can become as important as characters themselves; here are five prominent examples.

Curb Your Adaptations: On Animation & Live-Action
Curb Your Adaptations: On Animation & Live-Action

Animated films often don’t work when translated to live-action; here, we discuss just why that may be, and why it should be avoided.

Why People Love To Hate BASIC INSTINCT
Why People Love To Hate BASIC INSTINCT

Basic Instinct is a famous noir thriller by Paul Verhoeven from 1992; here is why it is still both celebrated and reviled today.

The ISA’s Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch In 2018: An Interview With Jamie Anderson, Valerie Grant & Lily Mercer

We spoke with Lily Mercer, Jamie Anderson & Valerie Grant, 3 of the ISA’s top 25 screenwriters to watch, about their screenwriting endeavors.

Feeling Sympathy For A Flawed Protagonist In TAXI DRIVER

Taxi Driver is a complex film in the way it presents a relatable character and then shows the increasingly erratic choices that he makes.