Petra Volpe’s The Divine Order earned this bold female filmmaker a shot at an Academy Award, selected as the Swiss entry for Best Foreign Language film in 2017 and is a must see feminist film that serves as both an inspiration and cautionary tale to us all. Now available on NETFLIX and AMAZON PRIME, it […]

Last time, I took to task the male-driven film, Manchester By the Sea, for aggrandizing bad male behavior while resigning its female characters to the limited patriarchal roles of crying, nurturing and providing sex. Lamentably, this profile fits far too many male-driven films, and this malpractice needs to stop. For starters, it’s bad storytelling. Constantin […]

It was a week after the WOMEN’S MARCH in January of 2017 when I went to see Manchester By the Sea. By movie’s end, my optimism fueled by the March was replaced by a sense of doom. In case you haven’t seen it, and even if you have, please indulge me a moment as I […]