Review / Personal Essay by Paige Taylor
It is important to showcase the grim reality of the cross that women bear, but the only solution we can offer is to lose every bit of your soul to grief and rage, die at the hands of abusers, and allow our judicial system to handle the rest?
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Adèle Haenel and Pauline Acquart star in director Céline Sciamma’s debut Water Lilies
Retro Review / Personal Essay by Paige Taylor
I wish I could sit teenagers down and give them all the wisdom I learned the hard way, answer all the questions they’re too embarrassed to say out loud, and assure them that their road to adulthood might feel shitty and weird but that is 100% expected and normal. There is beauty in this adventure too. Céline Sciamma clearly feels the same way.
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Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever star in director Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart
Review by Paige Taylor
I’m not joking when I tell you I am positively vibrating with giddy emotion over this movie. The experience of watching it was a fucking thrill. Once the laughter started, the room slowly transformed into sheer amusement-induced delirium and that energy sustained itself for the rest of the runtime. When I left I felt like I was getting back on the school bus after spending a field trip secretly drinking with all my friends.
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Personal Essay / Review by Paige Taylor
This dumb musical was so infectiously joyful that I’ve been addicted to its euphoria since I’ve watched it. I have listened to ABBA every single day since. I have run to my car to get to work and blasted "Chiquitita" with the eagerness of someone who’s just discovered a love for crack. I am deep in this blissed out state of 70’s Swedish pop band delirium and honestly? I do not care to escape.
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Jacob Batalon and Angourie Rice in Michael Sucsy’s Every Day
Review by Paige Taylor
We are given someone who understands humanity in the most empathetic way possible and who could potentially surpass any psychologist in history with all their rare, impossible insight, and yet what we’re given is just another YA person meets YA girl story.
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Rebecca Spence and Jessie Pinnick in Princess Cyd
Review by Paige Taylor
Princess Cyd isn’t told in the story structure we’re comfortable with. It has loose ends and unanswered questions and feels more like a chapter than an entire story. But like happiness, and like fulfillment, cinema doesn’t have to stick to one recipe.
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Jennifer Lawrence stars as mother in director Darren Aronofsky's new film
Review by Paige Taylor
I've never been able to explain the intimate connection a woman has to her home, and mother! did an incredible job of illustrating that connection to me.
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Gal Gadot stars in director Patty Jenkins film Wonder Woman
Review by Paige Taylor
Have you ever sat in a theater full of people, weeping with unrestrained joy, because a superhero was just that badass? This girl has.
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Justin Long and Emily Rossum star in director Sam Esmail's feature debut Comet
Retro Review by Paige Taylor
If you're scanning through reviews to see if you want to watch this movie, don't watch it just yet. Now's not a good time. If you want to truly appreciate this movie, wait for a day when your mind is clear.
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Min-hee Kim and Kim Tae-ri play a Japanese heiress and a pickpocket hired as her handmaiden in Director Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden
Review / Personal Essay by Paige Taylor
Warning: Review contains spoilers
This was the sapphic delight I've wished for for so long.
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