Category Archives: Amy’s MOW

THE FAVOURITE is a social satire on the royal court of 18th Century England with a feminist bent. It’s also an indictment on the patriarchy. It’s a story of women trapped in this brutal system, forcing them into a perpetual cycle of ruthless pursuit of power. The female characters in this movie are entertaining and […]

The great Feminist writer, Simone de Beauvoir, famously stated in her landmark book, The Second Sex, “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” I was reminded of this radical statement while viewing A Fantastic Woman. One of the most compelling films of 2017, A Fantastic Woman, does exactly what cinema should — challenge […]

Darren Aronofsky claims MOTHER is an allegorical film that uses the Book of Genesis to depict the destruction of Mother Earth. I saw a thinly-veiled excuse to torture a woman, bordering on the pornographic, with the take away message: women are disposable and there’s always another one waiting in the wings to replace us. The […]