Rape-Revenge Tales: Cathartic? Maybe. Incomplete? Definitely.
Films like “Promising Young Woman” should be especially urgent in the wake of #MeToo. Instead, they sell female characters short.
Carey Mulligan as a medical school dropout bent on avenging a friend’s rape in “Promising Young Woman.”Credit.Merie Weismiller Wallace/Focus Features, via Associated Press
This article contains spoilers for “Promising Young Woman.”
Early in “Promising Young Woman,” a pedantic creep inserts his fingers in the protagonist’s vagina. Our heroine, who has been feigning drunkenness, quickly snaps out of her stupor, shifting from easy prey to vigilante.
The creep tries to cover his assault, insisting that he is a nice guy who’d felt a connection with her.
Guy Ritchie, Miramax And STX Films Untitled Action Spy Film Set To Begin Production In Doha, Qatar
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Guy Ritchie s highly anticipated upcoming untitled film will kick off production this Thursday, January 14th in Doha, Qatar and will also shoot in Antalya, Turkey. The film reunites Ritchie once again with action-thriller phenomenon Jason Statham, marking their second film together for Miramax following WRATH OF MAN, and will also feature Aubrey Plaza (HAPPIEST SEASON, PARKS AND RECREATION) Cary Elwes (SAW, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, STRANGER THINGS) and Bugzy Malone (THE GENTLEMEN).
Sag Harbor Publisher Dr. Martin Shepard Dies 2 Photos
Judith and Dr. Martin Shepard in 2013. EXPRESS FILE
Judith and Dr. Martin Shepard.
Judith and Dr. Martin Shepard in 2013. EXPRESS FILE
Staff Writer on Jan 11, 2021
Dr. Martin Shepard, a psychiatrist, author, and with his wife, Judith, a trailblazing publisher, has died.
Dr. Shepard passed away at his home in Sag Harbor on December 17, 2020, at the age of 86. The cause was recently diagnosed cancer.
He was the subject of an extensive interview with book reviewer Norm Goldman on the website bookpleasures.com in 2011. The piece began with the author noting that The Permanent Press, which the Shepards owned, was committed “to publishing works of social and literary merit and has, over the decades, gained a reputation as one of the finest independent presses in America.”
What happened to American media? December 20, 2020, 12:41 PM IST
Freelance journalist Ashali Varma has authored the biography of her father late Lt. Gen. PS Bhagat ‘The Victoria Cross: A Love Story’. She was executive producer with the International Commentary Service Inc, New York in 1990. She was the executive publisher of The Earth Times, New York (1992- 98). She has also worked as the editor of Choices Magazine, United Nations Development Programme. She writes on various issues including human rights, population and sustainable development. LESS. MORE
I lived in America from November 1988 to 2002, but have not stopped visiting the US even when we left America, and due to job considerations transferred to Thailand, via a stint in Nepal. I know America gave me the break I could never have had in India in 1988 and I also know that the media when I went to the US was in large part, as far as I could tell, objective.