New Battle of the Sexes Trailer Shows Billie Jean King at Her Finest! Today Fox Searchlight Pictures released the international trailer for their upcoming historical biopic film, Battle of the Sexes, which focuses on the infamous tennis legend, Billie Jean King, and Bobby Riggs. If you’re familiar with tennis or certain gender driven events...
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Men STILL Can’t Get Over Alamo’s Women-Only Wonder Woman Screenings Like with Trump’s presidency, the harrowing story about Alamo’s decision to hold women-only Wonder Woman screenings (and the butt-hurt men who can not stand being left out) keeps getting more ridiculous with each passing day. In the next chapter of a...
Wonder Woman Review: It’s Fantastic and It’s About Damn Time! (SPOILER-FREE) I am relieved and absolutely thrilled to say that I loved Wonder Woman. I was worried, because a beloved property like Wonder Woman, which has been around since 1941, could so easily have been messed up. I think everyone was worried that we were finally...
The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas is making the rounds on the internet due to their announcement of a one-night Women-Only screening of Wonder Woman. Now, to those of us who are reasonable people, this doesn’t sound like such a huge issue. I mean, Wonder Woman has been one of the primary superhero icons for women for 75 years. We are...
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Almost Had a Female Villain – Depp Said No I was not at all thrilled to read on The A.V. Club yesterday that screenwriter Terry Rossio had written, in a column on his blog, that his original script for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales featured a female villain opposite Johnny Depp’s Captain...
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gal Gadot confirmed the obvious when the conversation drifted towards the topic of equality. “Wonder Woman is a feminist, of course,” says Gadot. “I think people have a misconception about what feminism is. People think hairy armpits and women who burn bras and hate men. That’s not it. For me...
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Renewed for Season Two Hulu knows a hit when it sees one, and The Handmaid’s Tale was generating buzz long before the episodes were released. It seems to have captured the current political and feminist zeitgeist, and Hulu has wisely renewed it for a second season after only four episodes. The 1985...
New DC Comics Multiverse Action Figures Highlight Wonder Woman Mattel’s DC Comics Multiverse Wonder Woman action figures hit toy store shelves recently, promoting the upcoming film starring Gal Gadot. The DC Comics Multiverse toy line produces 6-inch action figures that supplement DC’s blockbuster superhero films (think Suicide...
Marvel Exec Blames Low Comic Sales on Diversity and Female Characters Sigh. Over the weekend, an interview with Marvel’s VP of Sales, David Gabriel, was released. In the interview, Gabriel discusses the decline of comic sales and the reasons he thinks those sales are down. Originally posted by ICv2, it only takes three questions for Gabriel...
Legion of Leia Podcast Ep. 63: We chat with author Amanda Schuckman about ‘In From the Cold’ and More! Hello Legion!On this week’s Legion of Leia Podcast episode 63, my co-hosts Anastasia Washington, Sabina Ibarra and I welcome author and geek Amanda Schuckman! Amanda is the co-author of the first book in a new series...