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[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
[Image Description: a music group of six women singing against a purple background each wearing a different color.] via The Marlowe Theatre.

Have you heard of ‘SIX’, the musical where women take ownership of History?

Beatriz Valero de Urquia
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
A person sits in front of the tv.

To stream or not to stream… this is the question (during quarantine)

Carol Wright
[Image description: Joe Exotic from Tiger King with a tiger.] Via https://lareviewofbooks.org.

Why is the Netflix documentary series Tiger King so popular?

Maggie Mahoney
Haim sits on a couch.

“Women in Music” are changing the industry this summer

Carol Wright
Molly and Issa in a supermarket.

What HBO’s Insecure can teach us about our own friendships

Sharon Quituisaca
The image shows a still from the movie Bulbbul with two women wearing traditional Bengali wear.

Netflix’s Bulbbul and the too common depiction of Bengali women as witches

Deboparna Poddar
Edward and Bella, a brown-haired couple, hold each other close as they dance.

“Midnight Sun” makes Twilight great again… by being worse

Sana Panjwani
[Image Description: Artemis Fowl, a white boy with shaggy brunette hair and dressed in a black suit and dark black sunglasses struts towards the screen]. Via Disney.

Artemis Fowl is a train wreck of a movie fit for 2020

Sumaia Masoom
[Image Description: Three Black basketball players in white Bulls jerseys - Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman (L-R) - stare offscreen in between plays. Jordan and Pippen have their hands on their hips, while Rodman is bent over, resting his hands on his knees]. Via ESPN.

How “The Last Dance” reconnected me with basketball – and my dad

Sumaia Masoom