Mar 28, 2025
Today, Alex Heeney recommends Alain Guiraudie's multi-César-nominated erotic thriller Misericordia. Since the film takes many twists and turns that she doesn't want to spoil, she introduces the film briefly before delving into what we can learn from the opening sequence.
In excellent movies like this one, the opening...
Mar 21, 2025
Today, Alex Heeney recommends Steven Soderbergh's new spy thriller, Black Bag, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender. It's the rare film for adults that's a taut 90 minutes, character-focused, heaps of fun, and also screening in cinemas.
Alex discusses why she's been a Soderbergh devotee for 25 years and how...
Mar 14, 2025
Today, we're celebrating pioneering American woman director Joan Micklin Silver by looking at her biggest flop, the excellent Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), and her biggest hit, Crossing Delancey (1988). Although both films are over 35 years old, they mostly still read as very modern.
Woman in Revolt Editor-in-Chief...
Mar 7, 2025
Now that the Oscars are over, the best movies of the year are heading to cinemas in the next 3-4 months.
In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney is joined by C.J. Prince of Acquired Cinema to discuss four must-see films coming to cinemas this spring.
This episode is an addendum to our two-part series on how...