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A woman plays the violin.

Film score: the sadly underrated and not so silent hero of cinema

Carol Wright
[Image Description: Screenshot of Disney's trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon, with a girl in the sunlight wearing a hat.] Via Disney

Disney’s new movie “Raya and the Last Dragon” features Southeast Asian folklore – sign me up!

Natalia Ahmed
Still from the 2017 film "Wonder Woman". A dark-haired person dressed in the an elaborate blue and red Wonder Woman warrior gear, Gal Gadot, holds a shield in one hand. She is turning to face something outside the camera's frame with a bewildered expression on her face. An unidentified person dressed in a heavy raincoat is standing in the blurry background.

This is the REAL issue about Gal Gadot as Cleopatra, and no one is talking about it

Priyanka Sen

[Image description: a collage of seven examples of the funny fat women trope]

Why are plus size women always relegated to the comic relief sidekick?

Camilla Selian Meeker
[Collage of Death Becomes her, Halloweentown, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Clue, Once Upon a Time, and Corpse Bride]

31 not too spooky movies and tv shows to bingewatch this Halloween for the faint of heart

Aliza Schuler
[Image description: Elisabeth Moss as Shirley Jackson.] via IMDB.

Josephine Decker’s “Shirley” (2020) taught me to live on my own terms as a woman

Hannah Bonner

Attribution: [Image description: Still from (Aladdin): A woman in orange wearing jewellery with green accents, and a lady wearing red look quizzically at someone out of frame.] via imdb.com

Are the Disney live-action remakes necessary?

Amandi Fernando
A still from Aladdin: a woman and a man on a flying carpet look at each other. Via Disney on Slate.

Disney is ignoring accent representation, and it’s more frightening than you think

Apoorva Verghese
[Image Description: Enola, in a red dress looks at the camera against a purple background. Via Netflix.

Forget Sherlock, his little sister Enola Holmes can solve the case faster in new Netflix film

Beatriz Valero de Urquia

[Image description: promotional image for Guilty] Via Netflix

‘Guilty’ on Netflix is one of the best films tackling rape culture

Srilekha Cherukuvada
Mulan, a black-haired Asian woman, is dressed in a red ensemble, holding a a thin sword, a jian, over her head.

“Mulan” delivers an uninspired and weak retelling of its 1998 classic

Sana Panjwani
Attribution: [Image description: Still from (Main Hoon Na):A woman in a red saree and a man wearing black are locked in an embrace while a crowd looks on.] Via movies.ndtv.com

You’re not going to believe this, but Noah Centineo changed the way I see Bollywood romance

Amandi Fernando