Ladies Behind the Lens: SEA FEVER

by Rosalie Lewis 

“What came of the things we once believed? All lost to the depths of an angry sea.”

Ladies Behind the Lens: CROSSING DELANCEY

by Rosalie Lewis

I love movies set in New York City.

24 Hours of Movies: Female-Directed Horror!

by Patrick Bromley

This one pretty much speaks for itself.

Ladies Behind the Lens: GAS, FOOD, LODGING

by Rosalie Lewis

“Some people are afraid of disappointment. Me, I’m just afraid of not having any daydreams left,” muses Shade (Fairuza Balk) after a failed romantic overture in Gas, Food, Lodging. Allison Anders’ 1991 solo feature feels like the wistful escapism of Terence Malick’s Badlands confronted by the chorus of The Replacements’ song "Unsatisfied":

Look me in the eye and tell me that I’m satisfied...
Everything you dream of is right in front of you
And everything is a lie.

Tank Girl: Giving Boy Superheroes the Finger

by Cass Cannon

So...Junesploitation…This is what I remember finally be allowed to go trick-or-treating on my own as a kid was like. No parents or supervision—just unencumbered nighttime debauchery featuring lots of fake blood and enough high-sugar-content-crap to make you sick. And lots of cussing.

Needless to say, I’m having a fun first time.

Review: Mustang

by Cass Cannon

Jodie Foster was recently quoted saying Hollywood execs “still see women as a risk, [...] Sometimes it's hard for people to understand how to treat me as a leader because they're sometimes waiting for me to punch them in the face, which I'm not going to do, or sometimes they're waiting for me to say, 'Oh, gee, you sound so smart, why don't I just do it your way?' I'm neither one nor the other, and sometimes [that’s] confusing for people."