Noah Berlatsky

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.