“These four men and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces this year” were Emma Stone’s words as she introduced this year’s nominations for the Best Director Oscar. The statement was met with cheers and applause from the audience as the Academy was called out for their poor form in gender representation. Gerwig, the woman behind Lady […]
Kathryn Bigelow
Weinstein is symptomatic of a larger culture of sexual abuse in Hollywood
The New York Times recently revealed allegations that Harvey Weinstein has been sexually harassing women in Hollywood for decades. The industry is in chaos and many argue that a culture of silence has elicited this abuse. Hollywood is finally assessing the extent of these allegations but many in the industry say that Weinstein is just part […]
Review: Detroit
Ostensibly a film revolving around villains vs. victims – as some critics have lamentably suggested -, Kathryn Bingelow’s Detroit is so much more. This is a suffocating piece of cinema that provokes the viewer and is saturated with the deft nuance that won her an Oscar for The Hurt Locker in 2010. 43 dead, 1,200 injured, […]