Barbie has been a culture-war hot spot for about as long as it’s been on toy shop shelves, which is why The Guardian is questioning the effectiveness of director Greta Gerwig and co-writer Noah Baumbach’s decision to make the dolls empowering.
Greta Gerwig’s new movie is pink and fantastic.
Once regarded as unfilmable, Don DeLillo’s ‘White Noise’ has now been successfully adapted to film by ‘Marriage Story’ writer-director Noah Baumbach, making it much easier for students studying post-modernism to get the gist without having to read the book.
Look, I would never go so far as to say that life in plastic really is fantastic, but this casting is truly tempting.
20th Century Women is the story of a teenage boy and the three women who help raise him, set in Southern California in 1979. The comedy drama comes to us from the mind of writer-director Mike Mills, best known for Beginners and Thumbsucker, and plays out like an adaptation of an essay on gender history. […]