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Merie Weismiller Wallace/Focus Features WARNING: This story contains major spoilers for the ending of Promising Young Woman. The rape-revenge thriller has a long and somewhat seedy Hollywood history. “Traditionally associated with grindhouse misogyny and BBFC-vexing video nasties, it’s a format that by its very nature hinges on sexual violence,” The Guardian wrote in a succinct summary two years ago, noting that the trope was undergoing a renaissance in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman is perhaps the boldest and most realistic example yet of...

Monday, December 28, 2020 | Opinion By MARY KAY McBRAYER   We horror lovers have been tired of the rape-revenge fantasy trope for a long time, and most rape-revenge fantasy horror films fail because they try to fight violence with violence, which is not really the appropriate reaction. In many cases, that’s not how sexual assault manifests – or at least, that’s not the most horrific part of it. Because the effects of rape are in large part psychological, it makes sense that the punishment should be in kind. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020, dir. Emerald Fennell) is a rape-revenge story tha...

Promising Young Woman "I'm not really interested in heroes and villains," says the first-time filmmaker. "I'm really interested in good people doing bad things." On December 25,  Emerald Fennell comes out swinging with her enthralling and incendiary first feature film as writer and director, the Certified Fresh Woman. Starring Carey Mulligan as an avenging angel of the #MeToo movement – one who feigns stumbling drunkenness in dark bar corners, waiting to teach a lesson to any so-called “nice guy” who moves in for the kill – the film premiered at Sundance to big laughs, loud gasps, ...

Promising Young Woman Movie Review By Director: Emerald Fennell Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 12/5/20 Opens: December 25, 2020 If your cable TV viewing is restricted to the output of the NFL you may not see how Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” should remind moviegoers of a real-life drama involving Mr. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sworn into the highest judicial office in the land despite some credible evidence accusing him of immoral behavior. Just over two years ago, Blasey Ford, a psychology professor, accused Kavanaugh of having sexually assaulted her when they were in hig...

By Shari Goldstein Stern A dear friend to so many, Harry Walker passed away at Presbyterian Hospital Nov. 20 from COPD. He was 72.   A service was held at Restland Funeral Home Nov. 27, followed by a graveside service. Only 60 family members and friends could attend the service with COVID-19 pandemic safety protocols observed. The service was streamed online so that all mourners could join the occasion in real time. The recording will remain online through Feb. 27 at webcast.funeralvue.com/events/viewer/41387. Harry Walker and his wife Ellen Tucker Walker enjoyed the view of White Rock Lake ...