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From ‘The Hunger Games’ to ‘Kick-Ass’: How Hollywood is falling in love with female leads
In the 1985 comic strip The Rule, Alison Bechdel introduced a simple test that troublingly highlighted the gender bias present in mainstream movies.
By Kieran Turner-Dave | Arts, Film | Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 1:34 pm
The cinematic sounds of summer
Summertime means summer movies, and as usual this year’s fare is a mixed bag. My personal interest in a new batch of films is the original music that accompanies them. I’m an enormous film score geek, you see, and whilst summer blockbuster season doesn’t always bode well for someone with my musical interests (great scores just as often accompany the sleepy dramas tucked between major movie “seasons”), it at least signals a glut of big-budget, potentially exciting projects that tend to have big scores attached.
By Tim Greiving | Arts, Film, Music | Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at 4:05 am
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