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Little Women: the trials of girlhood in contemporary cinema

By Meg Walters

With more and more women taking an active role in film production, depictions of young women are changing. What can they tell us about the modern world?

The uplifting, transformative coming-of-age cinema of Greta Gerwig

By Mallory Blair

A writer reflects on how watching Greta Gerwig's Little Women led to a life-changing revelation, and the comfort found in her cinema of girlhood.

A first-hand account of Oppenheimer and Barbie’s censorship in Pakistan

By Adil Rahim Hyder

Social media has been fascinated by reports of a strange CGI addition in Oppenheimer for certain conservative countries – our writer reports on the reality of Barbenheimer in a country where cinema is subject to heavy government scrutiny.

Barbie review – a gorgeously weird blockbuster event

By Hannah Strong

Greta Gerwig's behemoth blockbuster is a stranger, more fascinating film than its hyper-corporate marketing would suggest.

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Let’s eat Barbie! A journey through one doll’s wry reinventions

By Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

An exploration of parodies and subversions of the infamous doll's image, before Greta Gerwig explodes into the tongue-in-cheek canon of Barbie culture.

Life is plastic and fantastic in the first Barbie trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Margot Robbie dons a great many outfits as the iconic children’s plaything in Greta Gerwig's technicolour dreamland.

Why Barbie and Oppenheimer will make the perfect cinema double bill

By Joshua Price

Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan are two modern auteurs with more in common than an upcoming summer release date...

This filmmaker used Barbie dolls to storyboard her debut feature

By Stefania Sarrubba

Director Kelly Walker explains how she came up with a novel solution to a creative problem.

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