Contributor Katherine McLaughlin

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Women In Film

Alice Lowe’s advice to women working in the film industry

by Katherine McLaughlin

The Prevenge director on how she owned her womanhood by flipping a perceived weakness into a strength.
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Obama Era Cinema

Black Lives Matter – Social media activism and the politics of protest

by Katherine McLaughlin

How a handful of filmmakers and a simple hashtag turned stories of African-American oppression into a national concern.
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If You Like...

How Train to Busan channels the social panic of Snowpiercer

by Katherine McLaughlin

The end of the world has a familiar theme in these train-based South Korean allegories.
Trailers

Mel Gibson goes berserk in the first Blood Father trailer

by Katherine McLaughlin

The Aussie star plays an ex-con with revenge in his eyes in this Jean-Francois Richet’s lean action thriller.
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Festivals

Jackie – first look review

by Katherine McLaughlin

Natalie Portman gives a stunning central performance in this emotional portrait of the iconic First Lady.
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Festivals

The Bad Batch – first look review

by Katherine McLaughlin

Cannibals and Keanu Reeves abound in Ana Lily Amirpour’s crazed vision of post-society America.
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Festivals

A Woman’s Life – first look review

by Katherine McLaughlin

There’s shades of Lars von Trier in this exquisitely crafted period piece from director Stéphane Brizé.
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Festivals

Hacksaw Ridge – first look review

by Katherine McLaughlin

Mad Mel returns to the director‘s chair, preaching pacifism in a church whose walls are splashed with gore.
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Festivals

Frantz – first look review

by Katherine McLaughlin

François Ozon returns with a full-bodied tale of stunted romance and the pained legacy of warfare.
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If You Like...

How Summertime channels the pro-choice spirit of One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

by Katherine McLaughlin

Catherine Corsini’s new film carries the torch for Agnès Varda’s feminist musical.

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