Warning: Contains minor spoilers Amy has it all. She’s a “boss bitch” with a sick apartment and a job as a writer in NYC. Her character, also called Amy, sleeps with a…
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The first time I heard Amy Winehouse back in 2007 I was hooked. Back to Black was so perfect I could hardly believe it existed. I’d been listening to old soul music…
Rashida Jones’ documentary, Hot Girls Wanted (now available on Netflix), explores the world of “amateur porn,” a booming industry thanks to a never ending influx young women, ready and willing, no coercion…
This is not a film. It’s a two-hour long action sequence. That said, there is a thin storyline that weaves through the kaboom-kapow clusterfuck of high-octane action. The ideas behind Mad Max:…
Director of “Cam Girlz,” a documentary about the women who perform sex acts online for live viewers, Sean Dunne, was interviewed on CBC’s Q last week. He told the host, Rachel Giese,…
Following in the footsteps of box-office smash, Maleficent, Disney has adapted yet another one of its animated classics with the soon to-be-released Cinderella. But just because it’s live-action, hasn’t stopped Disney from…
Netflix hit series House of Cards returned for its third season on Friday, and this time Frank Underwood has lied, schemed, and murdered his way into the Oval Office! But President Slimebag…
The last time two hours felt this long, I was in labour. Was I having a triple root canal sans anesthetic? Was I having a limb amputated? No. I was sitting through…
At a time when many of us are working flat out to help young women avoid controlling, manipulative, emotionally and physically violent relationships, comes a film which presents these behaviours as romantic.…
Hookers on Davie, a documentary from the 80s, was screened on June 24th at the Fox Theatre, a venue which caters to mostly white, liberal twentysomethings. The demographic who regularly attend events…
The cover of this manifesto on sex work shows three cogs in three fleshy tones, a penetrable central socket in each and high-heeled legs sprouting from them as they appear to grind…
Lovelace was hard to watch. It was hard to be reminded that there was a time when women couldn’t legally testify against their husbands. It was hard to watch a woman trying…
Sheryl Sandberg wrote us a “sort of feminist manifesto” and I was like — You know what, Sandberg? I’ll take it. Because even before it came out, people were bashing you. The…
Amidst a sea of accolades and five-star reviews (examples: here, here and here), Natalie Hill offers a dissenting opinion on Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film on the representation of women in the…