A number of critics have denigrated the BECHDEL TEST and not without good reason. As previously addressed, it’s a funny punchline from a 1980s comic strip that serves as an absurdly ineffective litmus test. In most cases this is due to the pathetically low bar it sets. Yet, in others cases, passing the test would […]

One of the greatest and celebrated female artists of the twentieth century, the incomparable opera singer Maria Callas, is the subject of a recently released documentary now playing in limited release. Largely told from her perspective and in her own words, the film MARIA BY CALLAS traces her life beginning with her modest background in […]

One positive takeaway from 2018 (and 2017, too) were all the great performances in leading roles from actresses old enough to remember an era where ROE VS. WADE was not the law of the land, few women were elected to either houses of Congress and there were no women on the Supreme Court. At the […]