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Professor Marston And The Wonder Women Offers A Fun But Predictable Origin Story For DC Comics’ Biggest Superheroine
Decades ago, superhero comics were looked down on as trash. During that same time period, romantic relationships between anything other than one man and one woman were regarded as freakish illnesses. A new movie about the life and loves of the man who created Wonder Woman shows how artistic and sexual prejudice threatened the early…
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Battle Of The Sexes Is Australia’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate With Tennis Balls
I’ve been playing tennis since I was five years old. As a young girl playing in the 90s, I was still subjected to a rigid dress code that dictated that we played in skirts or dresses. Considering my own personal context, Battle of the Sexes was always going to resonate with me as both a…
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Bullies Torment Humans And Ghouls Alike In The Nasty Mon Mon Mon Monsters
By this point, we’re all very familiar with the notion that “humans are the real monsters” in speculative genre work. Mon Mon Mon Monsters takes that idea, kicks it in the balls, and then squeezes a lemon and onion juice cocktail into its eyes. This is a must-see vision of end-stage nihilism.
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower Is Destined To Be One Of Your Favourite Animated Films
If Studio Ghibli made a film where Harry Potter was a girl, Hogwarts looked like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, and the whole thing turned into Akira, you’d basically have Mary and the Witch’s Flower.