Noah Berlatsky

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

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Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.