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South Korea Faces Backlash for Telling Pregnant Women They Shouldn't Gain Weight Bonnie Stiernberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Pregnant women already have to put up with plenty of unsolicited advice from loved ones and strangers alike, but this is beyond the pale: a set of guidelines posted online recently by the South Korean government has been removed after being called out for its sexist suggestions that pregnant women try not to gain weight, prepare meals for their husbands and do their best to not “look disheveled” after giving birth. As The Guardian reports, the guidelines a...

What Draws So Many Boomers to America's Largest Retirement Community? Charles Bramesco, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The retirement mega-community known as “The Villages” sprawls out over a slice of central Florida approximately 14 miles long and five miles across, a thick rectangle of land just northwest of Orlando. The geriatric paradise offers every form of recreation known to man against an immaculately manicured backdrop, making it one of America’s fastest-growing communities at 130,000 and counting — and the setting of Some Kind of Heaven, the debut documentary feature fro...

Sex Workers Speak Out Against "Sell/Buy/Date" Documentary Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Last week, playwright and performer Sarah Jones announced Sell/Buy/Date, a forthcoming documentary about the sex industry based on her 2016 stage production of the same name. News of the project, which reportedly boasts Meryl Streep and Rashida Jones as producers, quickly attracted criticism from sex workers, with many in the sex industry taking issue both with the documentary’s content as well as the names attached to it. According to Deadline, the film “tackles themes of inequality ...

The Story Behind the Greatest Movie Spike Lee Never Made Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail David Byrne’s American Utopia — seeing wide release and critical acclaim. Over the course of his career to date, Lee has made a host of films on a variety of scales, from sprawling epics to filmed theater pieces. But, as is the case with nearly every great filmmaker, there are also a few notable projects that never quite materialized and leave an intriguing sense of what might have been. A recent article by Charles Barfield at The Playlist explored Lee’s recent discussion, on the D...

Michael Apted, "Up" Series and "The World Is Not Enough" Director, Dead at 79 Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Coal Miner’s Daughter and the James Bond adventure The World Is Not Enough. Apted’s most lasting legacy as a filmmaker, however, may come from his work as a documentarian — The Up Series, which followed the same group of people at 7-year intervals for over half a century, is regarded as a towering achievement in documentary film. The Hollywood Reporter and other publications report that Apted has died at the age of 79, with Roy Ashton at the Gersh Agency conf...