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Holly Weaver
Staff Writer for Jumpcut Online, Screen Queens, and Scratch Cinema
United Kingdom
Freelance film writer. Contributor to Alicia Malone's book 'The Female Gaze'. MA Journalism (Arts) student - University of Lincoln.
United Kingdom
Freelance film writer. Contributor to Alicia Malone's book 'The Female Gaze'. MA Journalism (Arts) student - University of Lincoln.
Jumpcut Online
When I first watched Roar Uthaug's , what impressed me most was Lara Croft's intelligence and physical strength. She can overpower men twice her size, climb up a cliff face with no equipment, and solve riddles faster than I could even read them.
A century before 'AC/DC' became the moniker of a certain Australian rock band, the acronym was synonymous with American pioneers George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison and their conflicting ideas for electricity distribution. While the former was keen to explore the potential of high voltage alternating currents, the latter continued to champion his preferred low voltage direct currents.
Up in the Appalachian mountains, a church pastor's teenage daughter, Mara (Alice Englert), attempts to hide her unexpected pregnancy from her ultra-religious community. Their attitudes on marriage, sex, and pretty much any issue involving women, are outdated and oppressive. It isn't a textbook faith, but one that believes that serpents can cleanse the soul and must be respected.
Screen Queens
The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau takes us back to the Pride Lands in his photorealistic re-imagining of The Lion King. Simba (JD McCrary and Donald Glover), the rambunctious son of King Mufasa (James Earl Jones), is heir to Pride Rock. However, betrayal at the hands of his uncle Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofor) lands him in...
Petrunya Eftimovska (Zorica Nusheva) is a rather unremarkable woman, or at least that's what her mother would want you to think. Obsessed with her daughter's appearance, she insists that Petrunya dress in feminine clothes and wear make-up for an upcoming job interview, and throw in a lie about her age for good measure.
"The sea is what binds us" 'Vai' means 'water' in many of the languages spoken in the Pacific Islands. Just as water connects these islands, it also connects the 8 vignettes that form Vai, a feature-length series of short films directed by 9 female Pacific Islanders.
Director F. Gary Gray had a tough job on his hands taking over the Men in Black franchise from Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed all three of the original trilogy. Gray's sequel/spin-off Men in Black: International partially captures the wackiness of what came before it, but fails to reach its full potential.
Rural Wales is not a familiar setting to most people, but director Jon Jones uses it to explore themes that everyone can relate to: grief, growing up, and the importance of friendship. Set in the 1970s in the quiet Welsh countryside, Last Summer follows a group of boys whose playtime in the woods is cut...
The possibility of losing some of our most beloved superheroes in Marvel's upcoming Avengers: Endgame is hovering over us like a dark cloud. However, the DC Extended Universe has swiftly swooped in to save the day, and shine some much-needed light with the introduction of their newest, larger-than-life caped crusader Billy Batson, aka Shazam.
Reel Honey
Death-defying stunts are as synonymous with Buster Keaton as the toothbrush moustache and bowler hat are with Charlie Chaplin. , which celebrates its ninetieth birthday this year, is no exception to the trend.