It’s undeniable that Wonder Woman (2017) smashed both the box office and the glass ceiling last year, cementing itself as the highest-grossing DCEU film in the US and Canada and the highest-grossing superhero comic book adaptation directed by a woman, among many other accolades. With Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot at the helm off and …
After the success of their ‘Girlfriends’ season BFI Southbank are now dedicating their June programme to films by and about women, with major seasons dedicated to Ava Duvernay, Agnès Varda and Ida Lupino to link in with the national Vote 100 campaign, that celebrates 100 years since some women were able to vote for the …
Everything comes to an end. Though a few franchises seem to believe that spaced out rebirths are the way to go (we’re looking at you Halloween), even the multi-billion-dollar Marvel Cinematic Universe has to fade one day, but what can it do to survive? A few female directors thrown in the mix might help, with …
The SQ Podcast is a bi-weekly discussion of all things film, the women in them and the women who make them, hosted by Millicent Thomas and Megan Wilson. This weeks episode is on the women of the MCU and discusses the trailers for Ocean’s 8 and The Incredibles 2. You can also subscribe on iTunes here.
Our ‘Women Film-Makers’ segment wants to try to showcase the work of budding women directors. This doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be making films as a profession, or submitting them to festivals, you can submit something you made for a school project, or just lil experimental stuff you’ve shot by yourself or with friends. All we need is a …
Jessamyn Leigh is a twenty-something woman making web series’ in the Pacific Northwest. Her latest project is called Twincidents and she likes to describe it as “Shakespeare meets The Parent Trap”. Inspired by her own families experiences with adoption—her youngest brother was adopted through foster care—as well as recent films like Lion and Twinsters, Jessamyn wanted to update the … Continue reading
Bailey Heinonen is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California’s Film and Television Production BFA and the director of over a dozen short films and videos, co-director of one 30-min sitcom pilot, and director of the feature length horror mockumentary Knife Blood Pt.2. With a small but dedicated team of students, recent graduates, and … Continue reading
The SQ Podcast is a bi-weekly discussion of all things film, the women in them and the women who make them, hosted by Millicent Thomas and Megan Wilson. This weeks episode is a spoiler-heavy discussion of Alex’s Garland’s latest film Annihilation and discusses new trailers for Sorry To Bother You and The Spy Who Dumped … Continue reading
In the final scene of Annihilation, Natalie Portman’s biologist character Lena enters a mysterious lighthouse. She plunges into the dark cavern to find her expedition leader having an Invasion of the Body Snatchers moment before she explodes into a series of floating lights that transforms into a technicolor floating orb that looks like the eye … Continue reading
Each year, the Academy Awards honors the composers of the Best Original Score and writers of the Best Original Song. At the 2018 ceremony, Alexandre Desplat won for The Shape of Water and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for “Remember Me” from Coco (a scene so moving that I actually choked on my own tears). … Continue reading
In many ways, The Grand Budapest Hotel is the apogee of Wes Anderson’s style: witty dialogue, pastel palette, familiar cast of characters, generous use of tracking shots, and a distinct auteurial voice preserved, so clearly and indelibly suffused throughout everything in the world that Anderson had created. It is distinctively and idiosyncratically Wes Anderson. And … Continue reading
The first few minutes of Jung Byung-gil’s The Villainess are some of the most violent I have watched for a long-time. Immediately you are thrown into a bombardment of headshots, knife shots and fistfights – made all the more intense by the first person POV camerawork. Usually I am not the biggest fan of first … Continue reading
