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Few films bring together so many errors of the 20th century as the adult classic starring Sylvia Kristel that after half a century has become more like a social time capsule than a redeemable movie

What critics are getting wrong about Saltburn is that it is not a film about class mobility, but rather, a film about class consciousness.

Coffy saw Pam Grier as the main propulsive force in a Blaxploitation movie, breaking ground for later female roles such as Ripley in Alien, Sarah Connor in Terminator and Nakia in Black Panther.

A new restoration is screening at Bristol’s Cinema Rediscovered alongside films inspired by post-punk New York in the 1980s and a strand of blacklisted directors

Nina Menkes on her startling new doc, which shows how women are framed, lit and shot in films to reinforce Hollywood’s male dominance

All for one and one for all: Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers gets a 50th anniversary brush-up, while an Alpine drama tracks friends in high places.

To coincide with the release of Nina Menkes’s documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, we count down 10 films which defy the male gaze in cinema.

A beginner’s path through the alienated Americana of cinematic sorceress Nina Menkes.

Honest and fair depictions of sexual violence, abuse, and torture on screen are rare but not absent. 

To mark International Womens Day, writer Amelia Yeomans examines the history of chick flicks, the value they hold - and why its about time that we took the genre more seriously.