A truly complex novel that can be read in many ways, with an extremely
strong woman character who pushes things to the limits and beyond.
In all my novels the
central women characters need and establish close friendships with other women who often differ widely from one another.
It is rare that strong
women characters get to be protagonists in video games — and that's part of the problem.
She wants the reader to become involved in the lives of the three
central women characters, but I never was convinced that they were close friends on a deep level.
In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston to create the iconic Wonder
Woman character in the 1940's.
«Professor Marston and the Wonder Women'tells the true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans) to create the iconic
Wonder Woman character in the 1940's.
Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's recent string of films, Gloria and A Fantastic Woman, portray unique, intimate experiences
of women characters who are disarmingly genuine and authentic.
For over a year now, some of the most hardcore players have been using online forums to gripe about the fashion options available
for women characters in GTA Online.
Regardless of its base motives, Basic Instinct gave us a powerful
woman character who made its ostensible hero look like a whiny wimp, as Dargis implies, and in the long run that investment of power may have mattered as much as, or more than, the nonsense and nastiness.
Written in a series of personal letters, Jennifer Ryan's debut novel, The Chilbury Ladies» Choir, follows a diverse cast of
women characters as they navigate village life, love, friendship and dangerous family secrets.
«Black Panther confidently performs the tricky balancing act of writing fully
realized women characters into a traditionally male - centered narrative by wholeheartedly believing that they are integral to the storytelling.»
I'm not a black woman who doesn't get many opportunities to see women who look like me onscreen... but I sure as hell do love how many awesome
black women characters populate Black Panther, as warriors, scientists, spies, and queens.
begin with self -
centered women characters who have torpedoed their own lives in some grand fashion (one begins a life of crime, the ot
In The Year Of the Runaways, most of the men are Sikhs as is Narinder Kaur, the
only woman character.
As a teenager, I loved the Saturday afternoon black and white films on TV, with strong
women characters played by Bette Davis or Joan Crawford.
It has the same drawback that most Woody Allen films have, interesting, pretty, but relatively powerless, easily manipulated, emotionally
volatile women characters who are victimized by men.
Katniss is a marvelous cutdown of the preposterousness that too often passes for heroism in Hollywood, and a marvelous jab at the limited autonomy Hollywood most often
grants women characters.
In the first female driven buddy cop comedy, the actresses proved that
women characters don't need a man to help them thrive in their careers and relationships; Ashburn and Mullins succeeded in their decision to work together stop a dangerous city drug lord from further killing anyone else he perceived to be a threat.
He pointedly casts several black actresses (but still, sigh, gets an n - word in there), and, in a hilarious exchange between Walken and Farrell, addresses the lack of credible or
substantial women characters in Marty's script, and thus in his own writing.
«The early plays had very strong women,» he said, singling out 1996's «The Beauty Queen of Lenane,» his first credit, which featured two women as its leads, the four
prominent women characters in «The Cripple of Innishman,» and «The Lieutenant of Inishmore,» where «the strongest character was a woman.»
But Everly is neither a rape - revenge flick nor a declaration of feminism, really, what with its constantly declaring every
single woman character a «whore» in its first half - hour.
Intentions of Murder seems to anticipate Nagisa Oshima's harrowing Violence at Noon (1966), another black - and - white» Scope «thriller» that features a home - invading rapist who offers double suicide to his victim, two
contrasting women characters, train travel, and a rural farming community posited as an agrarian ideal.
Jamie Clayton and Jen Richards have called out Matt Bomer and Mark Ruffalo for casting a cis male to play a
trans woman character in Anything.
Since Farrell's character is a writer named Martin, we are probably safe in assuming that McDonagh is working through some of these same issues himself (especially the unnecessary violence and
weak women characters).
The only innovations to the formula are the inventive ways that Fulci finds to torture even
incidental women characters — but again, that misogyny is clothed in several layers of nostalgic funk.
The roles of
minor women characters have been inflated so that it wouldn't seem too much like a boy's own affair.
From Private Benjamin to Something's Got ta Give, writer / director Nancy Meyers has created and championed some of the most memorable
complicated women characters on the screen.
Dia got along fine with the
other women characters, with the exception of her step - mother and step - sister.
Not long after I finished Out of Circulation, I was working on ideas for a second series, one that would feature two
older women characters.
Caspary, who obviously sympathizes with the
career woman character in Bedelia, packs the book with fantastically cynical observations about men and women.
At the center of this matrix is Osama al - Kharrat (his last name means exaggerator), grandson of a hakawati and son of a wealthy car dealer and a glamorous, sharp - tongued mother, one of many resplendently witty and
wily women characters.
Also, that the Wonder
Woman character drew on the feminism of Marston's wife, Elizabeth Holloway, and of Olive Byrne, who joined the Marston household as a «housekeeper» and just happened to be the daughter of Ethel Byrne and niece of Margaret Sanger, two early, firebrand birth control activists.
We chat about Ellie from Borderlands 2 and her role as a
fat woman character, as well as Shadow of Mordor as well as the importance of reviewing games outside of the hype cycle.
We talk to Sylvia about Latinx representation in games and the industry, as well as discuss news pieces about
butch women characters, Petz and the extended history of games made for girls in the 90's.
They were playing as this dark -
skinned woman character and the chat was going nuts, really laying into them and telling me to do all sorts of horrible things to her...»
But this piece isn't about whether or not it's sexist to only
show women characters in games in their underwear (because I hope the answer is obvious).
That said, if Sherman's one - off still images of herself as
invented women characters have become legendary, I wonder why so many people have blank looks on their faces when the name of Lynn Hershman Leeson comes up in conversation regarding the world of contemporary art.
Nell Minow: «The slop» was the term male WWII - era British propagandists used to describe the dialog written
for women characters in the «authentic but optimistic» films produced to boost wartime morale.
Phrases with «woman characters»