misogyny

Credit: Nicole's/Shutterstock Parents, teachers and politicians are worried about the appeal of so-called "online misogyny influencers" to boys and young men. These influencers post content to thousands of followers in videos and podcasts, offering advice about relationships, mental health and well-being, and achieving material…

At 52, award-winning Scottish poet Em Strang is publishing her debut novel. Quinn is narrated by a convicted murderer who gets a shot at redemption when the mother of his victim makes a gesture of what appears to be radical forgiveness. Visceral, incantatory and startlingly beautiful in places, it’s a book whose power is accentuated by its brevity. Strang spoke by Zoom at the end of a month-long literary retreat at Hawthornden Castle, where she was completing a new poetry collection and beginning her second novel.You…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTill director Chinonye Chukwu has shared a powerful message about the treatment of Black women in Hollywood following the 2023 Oscar nominations.On Tuesday (24 January), the nominations were announced for the 95th Academy Awards. You can read the full list of nominees here.Some of the biggest snubs and surprises came in the Best Actress category, after Till star Danielle Deadwyler and…

When Mary Nighy was a young actor, an unhealthy number of scripts landed in her inbox featuring a character that went something like: “18-year-old-girl, naked, dead.” “Sexual abuse or violence is often just used as a plot device. It’s a catalyst for drama,” she says. “It doesn’t really tell you much about the experience of being abused. Or how you emerge from it.”Now, with her first feature film as a director, she has made a film that does exactly that: exploring what it might feel like to be trapped inside a coercive,…

If you had a Polish crime thriller that was originally released in January of 2020 becoming Netflix’s first international breakout hit of the year, then please make sure to forward us the next set of lottery numbers. Kicking off 2023 with a bang, Jak zostałem gangsterem. Historia prawdziwa – rolled out as the less tongue-twisting How I Became a Gangster on streaming – has become a sensation on the world’s most popular platform. Per FlixPatrol, Maciej Kawulski’s fairly self-explanatory origin story has instantly entered…

Women are waiting — especially Black women.For an apology. For remorse. For some humility. Hell, for even a modicum of self-awareness.But I’m not holding my breath for any of that.On Friday, a jury convicted Tory Lanez, a Canadian rapper whose real name is Daystar Peterson, of assault and gun charges in the Hollywood Hills shooting of fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion, whose real name is Megan Pete.The verdict comes more than two years after Pete told police that Peterson attacked her during an argument that started while…

‘Diversity and equality in the fire sector continues to be woeful’. Credit: Parilov | Shutterstock Following the tragic death of trainee firefighter Jaden Matthew Francois-Esprit, who took his own life in August 2020, an independent review was set up to investigate the workplace culture at the London Fire Brigade. Chaired by the solicitor and former crown prosecutor, Nazir Afzal, the review has found evidence of institutional…

This artfully made, borderline-despicable French drama revolves around Leo (Kévin Mischel), a brooding, lonely taxi driver with cheekbones sharp as dressmaker’s shears, a secret talent for musical composition, romantic longings for pretty dancer Amélie (Aurélia Poirier) and the uncontrollable urge to kill women. Whether he actually does that or not isn’t clear at first, since scenes where he murders one woman turn out to be fantasies … or are they?In a way, this film seems to not care either way because it’s essentially…

Letitia Wright is continuing to demand an apology and change from The Hollywood Reporter, with her again calling out one of the publication’s writers for a supposed vendetta against her. The star of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has been reported with innuendo over the last two years for her alleged views on COVID-19 vaccination and reportedly holding up filming due to hesitance to get vaccinated. THR writer Scott Feinberg seemingly equate Wright’s past controversy around vaccines with alleged sex offenders in Hollywood…

This leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth. It’s a remake of the psychosexual home invasion thriller Private Property, which starred Warren Oates – a cult classic that was out of circulation for decades after its release in 1960. (Memorably, Jackie Kennedy described it as an “awful, sordid thing”.) Depressingly, the new version seems to preserve its deeply misogynistic 1960s attitudes towards women. It’s a nasty pulpy film, in which the big question for the plot is whether a young woman is going be violently sexually…