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10 Years Since Bridesmaids: Exploring Womanhood Through Comedy

By Sophie Revell  Paul Feig’s 2011 comedy Bridesmaids proves that comedy can be used to highlight more serious social issues, without really lightening it either. Writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo blend hilarious moments of cringe and vulgarity with touching conversations about female friendships and other important social dynamics.  Bridesmaids follows single Annie Walker (Wiig) in her mid-thirties whose life is in a bit of … Continue reading 10 Years Since Bridesmaids: Exploring Womanhood Through Comedy

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Review: Wonder Woman 1984

By Nicole Rees-Williams Ôÿà As a child I was a huge superhero film fan, however in the 2000ÔÇÖs superhero films were still a very much male-dominated sphere and tended to cater to a male audience. Any female character involved in these films was hyper-sexualised and used purely as a benefit to the male gaze or to act as a love interest for the male protagonist.  … Continue reading Review: Wonder Woman 1984

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Review: Downsizing

Alexander Payne embarks on his latest cinematic journey in a transformative tackling of ever-present social, moral and political issues through an accessible, entertaining, bitesize medium. At a first glance, the film would appear as a standard Hollywood comedic throwaway with an interesting twist; Norwegian scientists have created a manner through which the human body can be shrunk down to a mere 5ÔÇØ, the process of … Continue reading Review: Downsizing

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